Illustrious to Imperfectly

A Concordance to the Collected Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Compiled by Eugene F. Irey

illustrious, adj. (18)

    AmS 1.101 25 [The scholar] is one who...breathes and lives on public and illustrious thoughts.
    AmS 1.107 25 The private life of one man shall be a more illustrious monarchy...than any kingdom in history.
    MR 1.255 3 The virtue of this principle [Love] in human society in application to great interests is obsolete and forgotten. Once or twice in history it has been tried in illustrious instances, with signal success.
    Comp 2.120 5 Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode;...
    Pt1 3.17 17 What would be base, or even obscene, to the obscene, becomes illustrious, spoken in a new connection of thought.
    ET7 5.121 21 ...the Englishman is not fickle. He had really made up his mind now for years as he read his newspaper, to hate and despise M. Guizot; and the altered position of the man as an illustrious exile and a guest in the country, makes no difference to him...
    ET12 5.199 2 Of British universities, Cambridge has the most illustrious names on its list.
    ET14 5.255 21 ...we have [in England] the factitious instead of the natural;...and the rewarding as an illustrious inventor whosoever will contrive one impediment more to interpose between the man and his objects.
    Ctr 6.152 15 In an English party a man...with a face like red dough, unexpectedly discloses...personal familiarity with good men in all parts of the world, until you think you have fallen upon some illustrious personage.
    Ctr 6.164 7 The high virtues...have their redress in being illustrious at last.
    Boks 7.215 15 ...'t is pity [people] should not read novels a little more, to import the fine generosities and the clear, firm conduct, which are as becoming in the unions and separations which love effects under shingle roofs as in palaces and among illustrious personages.
    Elo2 8.130 21 [Eloquence] leads us to...the men of character...and the cause they maintain borrows importance from an illustrious advocate.
    Edc1 10.145 18 Happy this child...with a thought which...leads him, now into deserts, now into cities, the fool of an idea. Let him follow it in good and in evil report...it will lead him at last into the illustrious society of the lovers of truth.
    Prch 10.219 18 No age and no person is destitute of the [religious] sentiment, but in actual history its illustrious exhibitions are interrupted and periodical...
    Plu 10.293 7 Strange that the writer of so many illustrious biographies [as Plutarch] should wait so long for his own.
    Plu 10.295 17 [Henry IV wrote] My good mother...who would not wish, she said, to see her son an illustrious dunce, put this book [Plutarch] into my hands almost when I was a child at the breast.
    Plu 10.312 8 ...we owe to that wonderful moralist [Seneca] illustrious maxims;...
    Milt1 12.248 1 [New criticism] implied merit [in Milton] indisputable and illustrious;...

ill-will, n. (4)

    Prd1 2.238 9 You are solicitous of the good-will of the meanest person, uneasy at his ill-will.
    Chr1 3.108 4 [Divine persons] are usually received with ill-will...
    Ctr 6.161 26 Ben Jonson specifies in his address to the Muse:--Get him the time's long grudge, the court's ill-will,/ And, reconciled, keep him suspected still./ Make him lose all his friends, and what is worse,/ Almost all ways to any better course;/ With me thou leav'st a better Muse than thee,/ And which thou brought'st me, blessed Poverty./
    Wsp 6.233 25 [The faithful student] shall...work against failure, pain and ill-will.

image, n. (59)

    Nat 1.26 25 Visible distance behind and before us, is respectively our image of memory and hope.
    Nat 1.31 3 A man conversing in earnest...will find that a material image... arises in his mind...
    Nat 1.47 19 ...what difference does it make, whether Orion is up there in heaven, or some god paints the image in the firmament of the soul?
    MR 1.244 12 Give [any man's] mind a new image, and he flees into a solitary garden...to enjoy it...
    LT 1.277 11 [The Reforms]...present no more poetic image to the mind than the evil tradition which they reprobated.
    Lov1 2.185 7 When alone, [the lovers] solace themselves with the remembered image of the other.
    OS 2.280 5 In the book I read, the good thought returns to me...the image of the whole soul.
    Int 2.334 11 So lies the whole series of natural images with which your life has made you acquainted, in your memory, though you know it not; and a thrill of passion flashes light on their dark chamber, and the active power seizes instantly the fit image, as the word of its momentary thought.
    Pt1 3.13 17 Things more excellent than every image, says Jamblichus, are expressed through images.
    Pt1 3.41 5 ...the rich poets, as Homer, Chaucer, Shakspeare, and Raphael... resemble a mirror carried through the street, ready to render an image of every created thing.
    NR 3.241 3 I think I have done well if I have acquired a new word from a good author; and my business with him is to find my own, though it were only to melt him down into an epithet or an image for daily use...
    UGM 4.6 17 It costs a beautiful person no exertion to paint her image on our eyes;...
    PPh 4.69 7 ...every pool reflects the image of the sun...
    PPh 4.69 9 ...every thought and thing restores us an image and creature of the supreme Good.
    SwM 4.115 1 Every particular idea of man...is an image and effigy of him.
    ShP 4.214 4 Daguerre learned how to let one flower etch its image on his plate of iodine...
    ET13 5.218 3 The carved and pictured chapel--its entire surface animated with image and emblem--made the parish-church [in England] a sort of book and Bible to the people's eye.
    ET14 5.233 21 What [the Englishman] relishes in Dante is the vise-like tenacity with which he holds a mental image before the eyes...
    Pow 6.81 16 A man hardly knows how much he is a machine until he begins to make telegraph, loom, press and locomotive, in his own image.
    Elo1 7.90 11 [A trope] is a wonderful aid to the memory, which carries away the image and never loses it.
    Elo1 7.90 16 Put the argument into a concrete shape, into an image...and the cause is half won.
    DL 7.125 15 The men we see in each other do not give us the image and likeness of man.
    Clbs 7.226 25 ...opinion native to the speaker is...inseparable from his image.
    PI 8.9 14 Every noun is an image.
    PI 8.12 27 Mark the delight of an audience in an image.
    PI 8.17 11 [Poetry's] essential mark is that it betrays in every word instant activity of mind, shown in new uses of every fact and image...
    PI 8.20 8 ...Swedenborg [expressed the same sense], when he said, There is nothing existing in human thought, even though relating to the most mysterious tenet of faith, but has combined with it a natural and sensuous image.
    PI 8.20 16 This power is in the image because this power is in Nature.
    PI 8.20 22 The selection of the image is no more arbitrary than the power and significance of the image.
    PI 8.20 24 The selection of the image is no more arbitrary than the power and significance of the image.
    PI 8.27 7 ...as a talent [poetry] is a magnetic tenaciousness of an image...
    PI 8.32 23 Later, the thought, the happy image which expressed it and which was a true experience of the poet, recurs to mind...
    PI 8.54 12 ...the rhyme is there in the theme, thought and image themselves.
    PI 8.69 24 It is not style or rhymes, or a new image more or less that imports, but sanity;...
    PI 8.69 26 It is not style or rhymes, or a new image more or less that imports, but...that life should be an image in every part beautiful;...
    QO 8.199 10 ...if we expand [Swedenborg's] image, does it not look as if we men were thinking and talking out of an enormous antiquity...
    PPo 8.243 8 Gnomic verses, rules of life conveyed in a lively image...were always current in the East;...
    PPo 8.243 8 Gnomic verses, rules of life conveyed...especially in an image addressed to the eye and contained in a single stanza, were always current in the East;...
    Insp 8.281 19 When we...have come to believe that an image or a happy turn of expression is no longer at our command, in writing a letter to a friend we may find that we rise...to a cordial power of expression that costs no effort...
    Dem1 10.10 14 ...under every tree in the speckled sunshine and shade no man notices that every spot of light is a perfect image of the sun...
    Chr2 10.104 8 Chateaubriand said...If God made man in his image, man has paid him well back.
    Chr2 10.104 9 Si Dieu a fait l'homme a son image, l'homme l' a bien rendu.
    Schr 10.265 12 ...[poets] sit white over their stoves, and talk themselves hoarse over the...the effeminacy of book-makers. But...at the reading in solitude of some moving image of a wise poet, this grave conclusion is blown out of memory;...
    LLNE 10.334 9 ...he [Everett] who was heard with such throbbing hearts and sparkling eyes in the lighted and crowded churches, did not let go his hearers when the church was dismissed, but the bright image of that eloquent form followed the boy home to his bed-chamber;...
    MMEm 10.404 24 ...wonderfully as [Mary Moody Emerson] varies and poetically repeats that image [of the angel of Death] in every page and day, yet not less fondly and sublimely she returns to the other,-the grandeur of humility and privation...
    War 11.156 8 In some parts of this country...the absorbing topic of all conversation is whipping; who fought, and which whipped? Of man, boy or beast, the only trait that much interests the speakers is the pugnacity. And why? Because the speaker has as yet no other image of manly activity and virtue...
    FSLC 11.194 5 ...the womb conceives and the breasts give suck to thousands and millions of hairy babes formed not in the image of your statute, but in the image of the Universe;...
    FSLC 11.194 6 ...the womb conceives and the breasts give suck to thousands and millions of hairy babes formed not in the image of your statute, but in the image of the Universe;...
    EPro 11.314 12 O North! give [the slave] beauty for rags,/ And honor, O South! for his shame;/ Nevada! coin thy golden crags/ With freedom's image and name./
    PLT 12.36 14 [Pan]...was not represented by any outward image;...
    Mem 12.93 20 We figure [memory] as if the mind were a kind of looking-glass, which being carried through the street of time receives on its clear plate every image that passes;...
    Mem 12.93 22 We figure [memory] as if the mind were a kind of looking-glass, which being carried through the street of time receives on its clear plate every image that passes; only with this difference, that our plate is iodized so that every image sinks into it, and is held there.
    MAng1 12.215 2 Few lives of eminent men are harmonious; few that furnish, in all the facts, an image corresponding with their fame.
    MAng1 12.216 8 Above all men whose history we know, Michael Angelo presents us with the perfect image of the artist.
    MAng1 12.219 20 The common eye is satisfied with the surface on which it rests. The wise eye knows that it is surface and, if beautiful, only the result of interior harmonies, which, to him who knows them, compose the image of higher beauty.
    MAng1 12.240 17 [Michelangelo's sonnets] are founded on the thought... that a beautiful person is sent into the world as an image of the divine beauty...
    Milt1 12.256 23 For the delineation of this heroic image of man, Milton enjoyed singular advantages.
    ACri 12.299 27 [Metonomy] means, using one word or image for another.
    Trag 12.414 3 If a man is centred, men and events appear to him a fair image or reflection of that which he knoweth beforehand in himself.

Image, n. (1)

    Dem1 10.28 6 Man is the Image of God.

imaged, v. (1)

    Exp 3.78 1 Life will be imaged, but cannot be divided nor doubled.

imagery, n. (13)

    Nat 1.30 7 When...duplicity and falsehood take place of simplicity and truth...new imagery ceases to be created...
    Nat 1.31 7 This imagery is spontaneous.
    SwM 4.144 8 In [Swedenborg's] profuse and accurate imagery is no pleasure, for there is no beauty.
    GoW 4.282 2 What signifies...that [the writer's] method or his tropes are inadequate? That message will find method and imagery, articulation and melody.
    Wth 6.126 17 The bread [a man] eats is first strength and animal spirits; it becomes, in higher laboratories, imagery and thought;...
    Elo1 7.90 1 Imagery. The orator must be, to a certain extent, a poet.
    Elo1 7.90 20 Statement, method, imagery...are keys which the orator holds;...
    PPo 8.243 3 These legends [of Persian kings], with...lilies, roses, tulips and jasmines,-make the staple imagery of Persian odes.
    Supl 10.179 3 The Northern genius finds itself singularly refreshed and stimulated by the breadth and luxuriance of Eastern imagery and modes of thinking...
    LLNE 10.333 11 [Everett] abounded...in daring imagery, in parable...
    MMEm 10.422 6 We call [Time] by every name of fleeting, dreaming, vaporing imagery.
    EWI 11.137 27 This moral force perpetually reinforces and dignifies the friends of this cause [emancipation in the West Indies]. It...gave that superiority in reason, in imagery, in eloquence, which makes in all countries anti-slavery meetings so attractive...
    WSL 12.338 22 [Landor is] A sharp, dogmatic man...prone to indulge a sort of ostentation of coarse imagery and language.

images, n. (49)

    Nat 1.31 1 The moment our discourse...is...exalted by thought, it clothes itself in images.
    Nat 1.31 25 Long hereafter...these solemn images shall reappear in their morning lustre...
    Nat 1.35 7 ...the images of garment, scoriae, mirror, etc., may stimulate the fancy...
    LE 1.159 3 ...the epochs and heroes of chronology are pictorial images, in which [the scholar's] thoughts are told.
    Hist 2.5 7 We, as we read, must...fasten these images to some reality in our secret experience...
    Hist 2.15 18 A particular picture or copy of verses, if it do not awaken the same train of images, will yet superinduce the same sentiment as some wild mountain walk...
    Hist 2.33 27 ...[Goethe's Helena] operates a wonderful relief to the mind from the routine of customary images...
    SL 2.133 1 My will never gave the images in my mind the rank they now take.
    SL 2.144 17 [Those facts, words, persons, which dwell in a man's memory without his being able to say why] are symbols of value to him as they can interpret parts of his consciousness which he would vainly seek words for in the conventional images of books and other minds.
    Lov1 2.175 21 ...the figures, the motions, the words of the beloved object are not, like other images, written in water...
    Int 2.329 24 In every man's mind, some images...remain...which others forget...
    Int 2.334 7 So lies the whole series of natural images with which your life has made you acquainted, in your memory, though you know it not;...
    Pt1 3.13 18 Things more excellent than every image, says Jamblichus, are expressed through images.
    Pt1 3.14 23 The mighty heaven, said Proclus, exhibits, in its transfigurations, clear images of the splendor of intellectual perceptions;...
    Pt1 3.17 15 The vocabulary of an omniscient man would embrace words and images excluded from polite conversation.
    Pt1 3.22 8 ...language is made up of images or tropes...
    Pt1 3.25 1 ...in the sun, objects paint their images on the retina of the eye...
    PPh 4.68 25 You will have, for one of the sections of the visible world, images, that is, both shadows and reflections;...
    PPh 4.68 27 You will have, for one of the sections of the visible world, images, that is, both shadows and reflections;--for the other section, the objects of these images...
    SwM 4.99 9 Such a boy [as Swedenborg]...goes...prying into...physiology, mathematics and astronomy, to find images fit for the measure of his versatile and capacious brain.
    SwM 4.131 11 A vampyre sits in the seat of the prophet [in Swedenborg's universe] and turns with gloomy appetite to the images of pain.
    SwM 4.132 6 It is dangerous to sculpture these evanescing images of thought.
    ShP 4.210 16 [Shakespeare] was...a brain exhaling thoughts and images...
    GoW 4.262 9 In man, the memory is a kind of looking-glass, which, having received the images of surrounding objects, is touched with life...
    ET14 5.235 18 To the images from this twin source (of Christianity and art), the mind became fruitful as by the incubation of the Holy Ghost.
    Art2 7.57 14 ...that Eternal Spirit whose triple face [beauty, truth and goodness] are, moulds from them forever, for his mortal child, images to remind him of the Infinite and Fair.
    Boks 7.199 15 ...who can overestimate the images with which Plato has enriched the minds of men...
    PI 8.12 20 Imaginative minds cling to their images...
    PI 8.17 25 As soon as a man masters a principle and sees his facts in relation to it, fields, waters, skies, offer to clothe his thoughts in images.
    PI 8.19 1 In the presence and conversation of a true poet, teeming with images to express his enlarging thought, his person, his form, grows larger to our fascinated eyes.
    PI 8.20 21 Better than images is seen through them.
    PI 8.30 16 ...in poetry, the master rushes to deliver his thought, and the words and images fly to him to express it;...
    PI 8.30 22 ...colder moods...insinuate, or, as it were, muffle the fact to suit the poverty or caprice of their expression...being unable to fuse and mould their words and images to fluid obedience.
    PI 8.44 13 The humor of Falstaff, the terror of Macbeth, have each their swarm of fit thoughts and images...
    PI 8.64 16 Bring us...poetry which...is the gift to men of new images and symbols...
    Elo2 8.117 14 The special ingredients of this force [of eloquence] are... logic; imagination, or the skill to clothe your thought in natural images;...
    Chr2 10.96 27 Devout men...have used different images to suggest this latent [moral] force;...
    Edc1 10.149 17 ...in literature,the young man who has taste...for fine images...is insatiable for this nourishment...
    EWI 11.129 23 As I have walked in the pastures and along the edge of woods, I could not keep my imagination on those agreeable figures, for other images that intruded on me.
    War 11.165 14 We surround ourselves always...with true images of ourselves in things...
    II 12.70 26 ...[Inspiration] has the royal expedient to thrust Nature between him and you, and perpetually to divert attention from himself, by the stream of thoughts, laws and images.
    Mem 12.93 25 ...in addition to this [photographic] property [the memory] has one more, this, namely, that of all the million images that are imprinted, the very one we want reappears in the centre of the plate in the moment when we want it.
    Mem 12.104 2 At this hour the stream is still flowing, though you hear it not; the plants are still drinking their accustomed life and repaying it with their beautiful forms. But you need not wander thither. It flows for you, and they grow for you, in the returning images of former summers.
    MAng1 12.233 12 ...let no man suppose that the images which [Michelangelo's] spirit worshipped were mere transcripts of external grace...
    Milt1 12.254 10 [Milton] is identified in the mind with all select and holy images...
    Milt1 12.260 21 The world, no doubt, contains many of that class of men whom Wordsworth denominates silent poets, whose minds teem with images which they want words to clothe.
    ACri 12.290 1 Goethe...professed to point his guest to his...Acherontian Bag, in which, he said, he put all his dire hints and images...
    WSL 12.339 13 A less pardonable eccentricity [in Landor] is the cold and gratuitous obtrusion of licentious images...
    PPr 12.384 13 It is plain that whether by hope or by fear, or were it only by delight in this panorama of brilliant images, all the great classes of English society must read [Carlyle's Past and Present]...

image-worship, n. (1)

    Hist 2.12 9 When we have gone through this process, and added thereto the Catholic Church...its Saints' days and image-worship, we have as it were been the man that made the minster;...

imaginable, adj. (2)

    Bty 6.291 25 In the midst of...a festal procession gay with banners, I saw a boy seize an old tin pan...and poising it on the top of a stick, he set it turning and made it describe the most elegant imaginable curves, and drew away attention from the decorated procession by this startling beauty.
    CL 12.154 6 The seeing so excellent a spectacle [as the sea] is a certificate to the mind that all imaginable good shall yet be realized.

imaginary, adj. (4)

    Tran 1.336 26 I, [Jacobi] says, am...that godless person who, in opposition to an imaginary doctrine of calculation, would lie as the dying Desdemona lied;...
    Ctr 6.144 22 I knew a leading man in a leading city, who, having set his heart on an education at the university and missed it, could never quite feel himself the equal of his own brothers who had gone thither. His easy superiority to multitudes of professional men could never quite countervail to him this imaginary defect.
    CbW 6.265 27 When the political economist reckons up the unproductive classes, he should put at the head this class of...cravers of sympathy, bewailing imaginary disasters.
    QO 8.196 6 It is a familiar expedient of brilliant writers...the device of ascribing their own sentence to an imaginary person...

Imaginary Conversations [W. (1)

    WSL 12.340 12 ...for twenty years we have still found the Imaginary Conversations a sure resource in solitude...

imagination, n. (180)

    Nat 1.43 27 In Haydn's oratorios, the notes present to the imagination not only motions...but colors also;...
    Nat 1.50 1 [Grace and expression] proceed from imagination and affection...
    DSA 1.145 20 ...refuse the good models, even those which are sacred in the imagination of men...
    LT 1.271 14 Our modes of living are not agreeable to our imagination.
    YA 1.363 6 America is beginning to assert herself to the senses and to the imagination of her children...
    YA 1.391 21 ...the development of our American internal resources...and the appearance of new moral causes which are to modify the State, are giving an aspect of greatness to the Future, which the imagination fears to open.
    YA 1.393 21 Something may be pardoned to the spirit of loyalty when it becomes fantastic; and something to the imagination, for the baldest life is symbolic.
    Hist 2.14 6 ...Io, in Aeschylus, transformed to a cow, offends the imagination;...
    Hist 2.30 11 The beautiful fables of the Greeks, being proper creations of the imagination and not of the fancy, are universal verities.
    Hist 2.33 22 Much revolving [his figures Goethe]...gives them body to his own imagination.
    SR 2.59 21 What makes the majesty of the heroes of the senate and the field, which so fills the imagination?
    SR 2.62 23 In history our imagination plays us false.
    SR 2.80 26 They who made...Greece, venerable in the imagination, did so by sticking fast where they were...
    Comp 2.115 23 ...the high laws which each man sees implicated in those processes with which he is conversant...exalt his business to his imagination.
    Lov1 2.169 15 The introduction to this felicity [of Nature] is in a private and tender relation of one to one, which...seizes on man at one period...and... opens the imagination...
    Lov1 2.171 9 ...each man sees his own life defaced and disfigured, as the life of man is not to his imagination.
    Lov1 2.179 9 Who can analyze the nameless charm which glances from one and another face and form? ... It is destroyed for the imagination by any attempt to refer it to organization.
    Lov1 2.180 3 The statue is then beautiful...when it...demands an active imagination to go with it and say what it is in the act of doing.
    Fdsp 2.206 23 I please my imagination more with a circle of godlike men and women variously related to each other...
    Prd1 2.240 17 Every man's imagination hath its friends;...
    Hsm1 2.258 5 A great man makes his climate genial in the imagination of men...
    Hsm1 2.258 8 The pictures which fill the imagination in reading the actions of Pericles...teach us how needlessly mean our life is;...
    Hsm1 2.259 12 ...why should a woman...think, because...the cloistered souls who have had genius and cultivation do not satisfy the imagination and the serene Themis, none can,--certainly not she?
    Cir 2.312 24 ...some Petrarch or Ariosto, filled with the new wine of his imagination, writes me an ode or a brisk romance...
    Art1 2.352 21 The Genius of the Hour sets his ineffaceable seal on the work [of art] and gives it an inexpressible charm for the imagination.
    Art1 2.367 17 ...[art] stands in the imagination as somewhat contrary to nature...
    Pt1 3.30 1 If the imagination intoxicates the poet, it is not inactive in other men.
    Pt1 3.33 27 ...all books of the imagination endure...
    Pt1 3.34 7 ...the quality of the imagination is to flow, and not to freeze.
    Pt1 3.38 5 ...[America's] ample geography dazzles the imagination...
    Exp 3.63 16 The imagination delights in the woodcraft of Indians, trappers and bee-hunters.
    Chr1 3.97 22 A given order of events has no power to secure to [the hero] the satisfaction which the imagination attaches to it;...
    Chr1 3.105 26 Two persons lately...have given me occasion for thought. When I explored the source of their sanctity and charm for the imagination, it seemed as if each answered, From my non-conformity...
    Mrs1 3.143 7 ...so long as [fashion] is the highest circle in the imagination of the best heads on the planet, there is something necessary and excellent in it;...
    Mrs1 3.150 24 ...besides those who make good in our imagination the place of muses and of Delphic Sibyls, are there not women who fill our vase with wine and roses to the brim...
    Nat2 3.171 21 There are all degrees of natural influence, from these quarantine powers of nature, up to her dearest and gravest ministrations to the imagination and the soul.
    Nat2 3.175 10 To the poor young poet, thus fabulous is his picture of society; he is loyal; he respects the rich; they are rich for the sake of his imagination;...
    NR 3.233 12 I read Proclus...for a mechanical help to the fancy and the imagination.
    NER 3.281 8 Let a clear, apprehensive mind...converse with the most commanding poetic genius, I think...the poet would confess that his creative imagination gave him no deep advantage...
    NER 3.285 8 The life of man is the true romance, which...will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.
    UGM 4.16 27 We go to the gymnasium and the swimming-school to see the power and beauty of the body; there is the like pleasure and a higher benefit from witnessing intellectual feats of all kinds; as...the transmutings of the imagination...
    UGM 4.17 10 Foremost among these activities [of the intellect] are the summersaults, spells and resurrections wrought by the imagination.
    PPh 4.57 15 [Plato's] daring imagination gives him the more solid grasp of facts;...
    PPh 4.59 9 Nothing can be colder than [Plato's] head, when the lightnings of his imagination are playing in the sky.
    SwM 4.93 10 A higher class...are the poets, who...feed the thought and imagination with ideas and pictures...
    SwM 4.111 9 ...[Swedenborg] has at last found a pupil in Mr. Wilkinson...a philosophic critic, with a coequal vigor of understanding and imagination comparable only to Lord Bacon's...
    MoS 4.175 3 [The levity of intellect] is hobgoblin the first; and though it has been the subject of much elegy in our nineteenth century...I confess it is not very affecting to my imagination;...
    ShP 4.194 9 [Popular tradition]...in furnishing so much work done to his hand, leaves [the poet] at leisure and in full strength for the audacities of his imagination.
    ShP 4.207 6 That imagination which dilates the closet [Shakespeare] writes in to the world's dimension...as quickly reduces the big reality to be the glimpses of the moon.
    NMW 4.245 27 Whatever appeals to the imagination, by transcending the ordinary limits of human ability, wonderfully encourages and liberates us.
    ET3 5.42 20 In the variety of surface, Britain is a miniature of Europe, having...in Westmoreland and Cumberland a pocket Switzerland, in which the lakes and mountains are on a sufficient scale to fill the eye and touch the imagination.
    ET6 5.106 15 ...in my lectures [in England] I hesitated to read and threw out for its impertinence many a disparaging phrase which I had been accustomed to spin, about poor, thin, unable mortals;--so much had the fine physique and the personal vigor of this robust race worked on my imagination.
    ET11 5.178 27 This long descent of [English] families and this cleaving through ages to the same spot of ground, captivates the imagination.
    ET14 5.232 21 The [English] poet nimbly recovers himself from every sally of the imagination.
    ET14 5.236 2 The ardor and endurance of [English] study...their fancy and imagination and easy spanning of vast distances of thought...astonish...
    ET14 5.248 9 It is because [Bacon] had imagination...that he is impressive...
    ET14 5.250 1 ...[Carlyle's] imagination, finding no nutriment in any creation, avenged itself by celebrating the majestic beauty of the laws of decay.
    ET14 5.254 2 ...for the most part the natural science in England...is as void of imagination and free play of thought as conveyancing.
    ET14 5.255 17 In the absence...of the pure love of knowledge and the surrender to nature, there is [in England] the suppression of the imagination...
    Ctr 6.150 8 The best bribe which London offers to-day to the imagination is that in such a vast variety of people and conditions one can believe there is room for persons of romantic character to exist...
    Ctr 6.150 27 How the imagination is piqued by anecdotes of some great man passing incognito...
    Ctr 6.156 7 In the morning,--solitude; said Pythagoras; that nature may speak to the imagination...
    Wsp 6.224 9 A man cannot utter two or three sentences without disclosing to intelligent ears precisely where he stands in life and thought, namely, whether in the kingdom of the senses and the understanding, or in that of ideas and imagination...
    Wsp 6.238 7 The great class, they who affect our imagination...suggest what they cannot execute.
    Wsp 6.241 6 There is surely enough for the heart and imagination in the religion itself.
    Bty 6.302 27 Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful.
    Bty 6.303 10 ...the imagination and senses cannot be gratified at the same time.
    Bty 6.304 6 The feat of the imagination is in showing the convertibility of every thing into every other thing.
    Bty 6.304 24 There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination.
    Civ 7.23 19 The skilful combinations of civil government...in their result delight the imagination.
    Elo1 7.73 19 ...the power of detaining the ear by pleasing speech, and addressing the fancy and imagination, often exists without higher merits.
    Elo1 7.81 25 ...when [personal ascendency] is weaponed with a power of speech, it...supplies the imagination with fine materials.
    DL 7.106 6 St. Peter's cannot have the magical power over us that the red and gold covers of our first picture-book possessed. How the imagination cleaves to the warm glories of that tinsel even now!
    DL 7.120 26 ...who can see unmoved...the affectionate delight with which [the eager, blushing boys] greet the return of each one after the early separations which school or business require; the foresight with which, during such absences, they hive the honey which opportunity offers, for the ear and imagination of others;...
    DL 7.127 4 The secret power of form over the imagination and affections transcends all our philosophy.
    DL 7.131 8 ...in the Sistine Chapel I see the grand sibyls and prophets, painted in fresco by Michel Angelo,--which have every day now for three hundred years inflamed the imagination...of what vast multitudes of men of all nations!
    WD 7.170 11 There are days which are the carnival of the year. The angels assume flesh, and repeatedly become visible. The imagination of the gods is excited and rushes on every side into forms.
    WD 7.177 7 That work is ever the more pleasant to the imagination which is not now required.
    Boks 7.191 5 ...[books] address the imagination...
    Boks 7.213 11 Whilst the prudential and economical tone of society starves the imagination, affronted Nature gets such indemnity as she may.
    Boks 7.213 13 The novel is that allowance and frolic the imagination finds.
    Boks 7.213 22 The imagination infuses a certain volatility and intoxication.
    Boks 7.213 27 ...what is the imagination?
    Cour 7.262 27 The child is as much in danger from...a cat, as the soldier from...an ambush. ... Each is liable to panic, which is, exactly, the terror of ignorance surrendered to the imagination.
    Cour 7.263 13 [The soldier] sees how much is the risk, and is not afflicted with imagination;...
    Cour 7.265 5 ...men with little imagination are less fearful;...
    Suc 7.297 19 What is so admirable as the health of youth?--with his long days because...he loves books that speak to the imagination;...
    PI 8.10 24 Science does not know its debt to imagination.
    PI 8.15 18 The endless passing of one element into new forms...explains the rank which the imagination holds in our catalogue of mental powers.
    PI 8.15 19 The endless passing of one element into new forms...explains the rank which the imagination holds in our catalogue of mental powers. The imagination is the reader of these forms.
    PI 8.15 26 The impressions on the imagination make the great days of life...
    PI 8.17 20 The term genius, when used with emphasis, implies imagination;...
    PI 8.18 21 The act of imagination is ever attended by pure delight.
    PI 8.19 9 Whilst common sense looks at things or visible Nature as real and final facts, poetry, or the imagination which dictates it, is a second sight...
    PI 8.20 14 The very design of imagination is to domesticate us in another, in a celestial nature.
    PI 8.21 1 ...shall we say that the imagination exists by sharing the ethereal currents?
    PI 8.26 9 ...when, on rare days, [nature] speaks to the imagination, we feel that the huge heaven and earth are but a web drawn around us...
    PI 8.28 6 Imagination respects the cause.
    PI 8.28 23 Imagination is central; fancy, superficial.
    PI 8.29 1 Fancy is a wilful, imagination a spontaneous act;...
    PI 8.29 3 ...imagination [is] a perception and affirming of a real relation between a thought and some material fact.
    PI 8.29 6 Fancy amuses; imagination expands and exalts us.
    PI 8.29 6 Imagination uses an organic classification.
    PI 8.29 10 Fancy aggregates; imagination animates.
    PI 8.29 11 Fancy is related to color; imagination, to form.
    PI 8.29 12 Fancy paints; imagination sculptures.
    PI 8.50 11 Thomas Taylor...is really a better man of imagination, a better poet...than any man between Milton and Wordsworth.
    PI 8.56 6 ...the imagination is not a talent of some men but is the health of every man...
    PI 8.72 18 ...Dante was free imagination...yet he wrote like Euclid.
    Elo2 8.114 14 ...you may find [the orator] in some lowly Bethel, by the seaside, where a hard-featured, scarred and wrinkled Methodist becomes the poet of the sailor and the fisherman, whilst he pours out the abundant streams of his thought through a language all glittering and fiery with imagination;...
    Elo2 8.117 13 The special ingredients of this force [of eloquence] are clear perceptions; memory; power of statement; logic; imagination...
    Comc 8.159 10 ...the human form...suggests to our imagination the perfection of truth or goodness...
    QO 8.178 2 Of a large and powerful class we might ask with confidence, What is the event they most desire? what gift? What but the book that shall come, which...shall speak to the imagination?
    QO 8.198 7 We once knew a man overjoyed at the notice of his pamphlet in a leading newspaper. What range he gave his imagination!
    PC 8.217 26 ...if [a man] has imagination, he intoxicates men.
    PC 8.224 23 Whilst [Nature's] power is offered to [man's] hand, its laws to his science, not less its beauty speaks to his taste, imagination and sentiment.
    Insp 8.270 19 We must take [the aboriginal man] as we find him...in all our knowledge of him, an interesting creature, with a will, an invention, an imagination, a conscience and an inextinguishable hope.
    Insp 8.290 26 William Blake said, Natural objects always did and do weaken, deaden and obliterate imagination in me.
    Imtl 8.335 19 A candle a mile long or a hundred miles long does not help the imagination;...
    Imtl 8.338 8 The future must be up to the style of our faculties,-of memory, of hope, of imagination, of reason.
    Dem1 10.25 13 [Animal Magnetism] seemed to open again that door which was open to the imagination of childhood-of magicians and fairies and lamps of Aladdin...
    Dem1 10.27 10 ...far be from me the lust of explaining away all which appeals to the imagination...
    Aris 10.34 11 If one thinks of the interest which all men have in beauty of character and manners; that it is of the last importance to the imagination and affection...certainly, if culture, if laws...could secure such a result as superior and finished men, it would be the interest of all mankind to see that the steps were taken...
    Aris 10.56 15 I know nothing which induces so base and forlorn a feeling as when we are treated for our utilities...starving the imagination and the sentiment.
    PerF 10.82 20 The imagination enriches [the man], as if there were no other;...
    Chr2 10.103 9 [The moral sentiment] is not only insight, as science, as fancy, as imagination is;...but it is a sovereign rule...
    Edc1 10.134 13 The imagination must be addressed.
    Edc1 10.142 21 There comes the period of the imagination to each, a later youth;...
    Edc1 10.143 4 Do not spare to put novels into the hands of young people as an occasional holiday and experiment; but, above all, good poetry in all kinds, epic, tragedy, lyric. If we can touch the imagination, we serve them...
    Edc1 10.157 18 I assume that you [teachers] will keep the grammar, reading, writing and arithmetic in order; 't is easy and of course you will. But smuggle in a little contraband wit, fancy, imagination, thought.
    SovE 10.206 8 Superstitious persons we see with respect, because...they walk attended by pictures of the imagination, to which they pay homage.
    SovE 10.207 1 We in America are charged...that...we...believe in our senses and understandings, while our imagination and our moral sentiment are desolated.
    MoL 10.243 15 It is charged that all vigorous nations, except our own, have balanced their labor by mental activity, and especially by the imagination...
    MoL 10.243 26 The Greek was so perfect in action and in imagination, his poems...so charming in form and so true to the human mind, that we cannot forget or outgrow their mythology.
    MoL 10.244 11 See the activity of the imagination in the Crusades...
    Plu 10.298 3 ...[Plutarch] had many qualities of the poet in the power of his imagination...
    LLNE 10.332 17 [Everett's learning] was so coldly and weightily communicated...that...this learning instantly took the highest place to our imagination...
    LLNE 10.347 5 [Robert Owen] said that Fourier learned of him all the truth he had; the rest of his system was imagination, and the imagination of a banker.
    MMEm 10.403 16 My opinion, [Mary Moody Emerson] writes, [is]...that the fiery depths of Calvinism...would have alone been fitted to fix [Byron' s] imagination.
    MMEm 10.431 26 What a timid, ungrateful creature! Fear the deepest pitfalls of age, when pressing on, in imagination at least, to Him with whom a day is a thousand years...
    HDC 11.29 15 ...in the eternity of Nature, how recent our antiquities appear! The imagination is impatient of a cycle so short.
    EWI 11.129 22 As I have walked in the pastures and along the edge of woods, I could not keep my imagination on those agreeable figures, for other images that intruded on me.
    War 11.173 26 The man of principle...does not yield, in my imagination, to any man.
    FSLC 11.205 8 In Mr. Webster's imagination the American Union was a huge Prince Rupert's drop...
    SMC 11.351 9 The art of the architect and the sense of the town have made these dumb stones [of the Concord Monument] speak;...have given them a meaning for the imagination and the heart.
    EdAd 11.385 3 Where [in America] are the works of the imagination...
    Wom 11.410 13 The spiritual force of man is as much shown...in his fancy and imagination...as in his perception of truth.
    Scot 11.466 1 [Scott] saw...in his own reading and research such store of legend and renown as won his imagination to their cause.
    CPL 11.503 6 ...if you can kindle the imagination by a new thought... instantly you expand...
    CPL 11.507 18 The imagination knows its own food in every pasture...
    CPL 11.508 7 [Books'] costliest benefit is that they set us free from themselves; for they wake the imagination and the sentiment...
    FRep 11.528 11 In Mr. Webster's imagination the American Union was a huge Prince Rupert's drop, which will snap into atoms is so much as the smallest end be shivered off.
    FRep 11.544 15 ...every elegant art, every exercise of the imagination...will find their home in our institutions...
    PLT 12.49 3 As a talent Dante's imagination is the nearest to hands and feet that we have seen.
    PLT 12.59 13 [A fact] is...only a means now to new sallies of the imagination and new progress of wisdom.
    II 12.68 14 ...long after we have quitted the place [the art gallery], the objects begin to take a new order;...the truly noble forms reappear to the imagination.
    II 12.88 27 ...there is surely enough for the heart and the imagination in the [universal] religion itself.
    Mem 12.104 10 You may perish out of your senses, but not out of your memory or imagination.
    CL 12.141 11 Even Lord Bacon said, The Stars inject their imagination or influence into the air.
    CL 12.156 5 ...a view from a cliff over a wide country...reinstates us wronged men in our rights. The imagination is touched.
    CL 12.163 26 Nature speaks to the imagination;...
    CL 12.166 13 I know that the imagination...is a coy, capricious power...
    Bost 12.199 21 What should hinder that this America...glimpses being afforded which spoke to the imagination, yet the firm shore hid until science and art should be ripe to propose it as a fixed aim...should have its happy ports...
    Bost 12.200 18 ...a gold-mine, a new country, speak to the imagination...
    Bost 12.204 4 ...I do not find in our [New England] people, with all their education, a fair share of originality of thought;...not any...equal power of imagination.
    MAng1 12.222 22 There are now in Italy, both on canvas and in marble, forms and faces which the imagination is enriched by contemplating.
    MAng1 12.232 25 The things proposed to [Michelangelo] in his imagination were such that, for not being able with his hands to express so grand and terrible conceptions, he often abandoned his work.
    Milt1 12.274 24 ...Bacon's imagination was said to be the noblest that ever contented itself to minister to the understanding...
    Milt1 12.277 5 It was plainly needful that [Milton's] poetry should be a version of his own life, in order to give weight and solemnity to his thoughts; by which they might penetrate and possess the imagination and the will of mankind.
    Milt1 12.277 11 Milton...tasked his giant imagination...for an end beyond, namely, to teach.
    ACri 12.286 26 See how Plato managed it, with an imagination so gorgeous, and a taste so patrician, that Jove, if he descended, was to speak in his style.
    MLit 12.319 21 ...imagination, the original, authentic fire of the bard, [Shelley] has not.
    EurB 12.373 12 ...we can easily believe that the behavior of the ball-room and of the hotel has not failed to draw some addition of dignity and grace from the fair ideals with which the imagination of a novelist has filled the heads of the most imitative class.
    EurB 12.373 24 The story of Zanoni was one of those world-fables which is so agreeable to the human imagination that it is found in some form in the language of every country...
    PPr 12.386 20 It was perhaps inseparable from the attempt to write a book of wit and imagination on English politics that a certain local emphasis and love of effect...should appear...
    PPr 12.391 6 This grandiose character pervades [Carlyle's] wit and his imagination.
    Let 12.402 27 As if any taste or imagination could take the place of fidelity!
    Trag 12.407 12 The same idea [of Fate] makes the paralyzing terror with which the East Indian mythology haunts the imagination.
    Trag 12.409 7 A low, haggard sprite sits by our side...a power of the imagination to dislocate things orderly and cheerful and show them in startling array.
    Trag 12.416 3 It is my duty, says Sir Charles Bell, to visit certain wards of the hospital where there is no patient admitted but with that complaint which most fills the imagination with the idea of insupportable pain and certain death.

Imagination, n. (12)

    Nat 1.52 12 The Imagination may be defined to be the use which the Reason makes of the material world.
    Pt1 3.26 5 This insight, which expresses itself by what is called Imagination, is a very high sort of seeing...
    Boks 7.212 8 A right metaphysics should do justice to the coordinate powers of Imagination, Insight, Understanding and Will.
    Boks 7.212 16 ...in this rag-fair neither the Imagination...nor the Morals... are addressed.
    PI 8.19 7 Imagination.--Whilst common sense looks at things or visible Nature as real and final facts, poetry, or the imagination which dictates it, is a second sight...
    PI 8.28 5 It is a problem of metaphysics to define the province of Fancy and Imagination.
    Aris 10.39 12 I wish...men...who...are not too learned to love the Imagination...
    Aris 10.52 19 Genius...the power to affect the Imagination...has a royal right in all possessions and privileges...
    PerF 10.78 8 It would be easy to awake wonder by sketching the performance of each of these mental forces; as...of the Imagination...
    Thor 10.475 24 [Thoreau] knew the worth of the Imagination for the uplifting and consolation of human life...
    II 12.76 22 ...Memory, Imagination, Fancy...'t is very certain that these things have been hid as under towels and blankets, most part of our days...
    CInt 12.126 26 ...here [in the college] Imagination should be greeted with the problems in which it delights;...

imaginations, n. (6)

    LE 1.167 5 We assume that all thought is already long ago adequately set down in books, -all imaginations in poems;...
    Art1 2.361 3 ...in my younger days...I fancied the great pictures would be... a foreign wonder, barbaric pearl and gold, like the spontoons and standards of the militia, which play such pranks in the eyes and imaginations of school-boys.
    Art1 2.366 14 Men are not well pleased with the figure they make in their own imaginations, and they flee to art...
    ET14 5.248 12 It is because [Bacon]...basked in an element of contemplation out of all modern English atmospheric gauges, that he is impressive to the imaginations of men...
    Ill 6.312 3 We live by our imaginations...
    PI 8.27 23 William Blake...writes thus... The painter of this work asserts that all his imaginations appear to him infinitely more perfect and more minutely organized than anything seen by his mortal eye.

imaginative, adj. (31)

    AmS 1.112 22 The most imaginative of men...[Swedenborg] endeavored to engraft a purely philosophical Ethics on the popular Christianity of his time.
    MN 1.216 2 The imaginative faculty of the soul must be fed with objects immense and eternal.
    YA 1.392 14 ...to imaginative persons in this country there is somewhat bare and bald in our short history and unsettled wilderness.
    Int 2.336 23 ...the imaginative vocabulary seems to be spontaneous also.
    Pt1 3.18 1 Bare lists of words are found suggestive to an imaginative and excited mind;...
    Pt1 3.32 5 An imaginative book renders us much more service at first, by stimulating us through its tropes, than afterwards when we arrive at the precise sense of the author.
    Pt1 3.34 6 The religions of the world are the ejaculations of a few imaginative men.
    Nat2 3.174 23 When the rich tax the poor with servility and obsequiousness, they should consider the effect of men reputed to be the possessors of nature, on imaginative minds.
    UGM 4.17 24 The high functions of the intellect are so allied that some imaginative power usually appears in all eminent minds...
    ShP 4.212 9 With [Shakespeare's] wisdom of life is the equal endowment of imaginative and of lyric power.
    Ctr 6.164 16 ...I observe that [scholars] lost on ruder companions those years of boyhood which alone could give imaginative literature a religious and infinite quality in their esteem.
    Ill 6.312 9 What a debt is [the boy's] to imaginative books!
    Elo1 7.71 1 The more indolent and imaginative complexion of the Eastern nations makes them much more impressible by these appeals to the fancy.
    Elo1 7.90 2 We are such imaginative creatures that nothing so works on the human mind...as a trope.
    DL 7.106 10 [The child's] imaginative life dresses all things in their best.
    Boks 7.203 2 The imaginative scholar will find few stimulants to his brain like these writers [the Platonists].
    Boks 7.212 10 Poetry...must be well allowed for an imaginative creature.
    Boks 7.217 24 Every good fable...every passage of love, and even philosophy and science, when they...are not detached and critical, have the imaginative element.
    PI 8.3 22 ...the most imaginative and abstracted person never makes with impunity the least mistake in this particular,--never tries to kindle his oven with water...
    PI 8.12 10 Nothing so marks a man as imaginative expressions.
    PI 8.12 19 Imaginative minds cling to their images...
    PI 8.22 3 Men are imaginative...
    PI 8.52 9 The best thoughts run into the best words; imaginative and affectionate thoughts into music and metre.
    QO 8.191 3 If an author give us...inspiring lessons, or imaginative poetry, it is not so important to us whose they are.
    QO 8.195 23 Hallam...is...able to appreciate poetry unless it becomes deep, being always blind and deaf to imaginative and analogy-loving souls...
    PC 8.211 17 The correlation of forces and the polarization of light...have affected an imaginative race like poetic inspirations.
    Chr2 10.117 9 There will always be a class of imaginative youths...
    Schr 10.265 11 ...[poets] sit white over their stoves, and talk themselves hoarse over the...the effeminacy of book-makers. But...at the sound of some subtle word that falls from the lips of an imaginative person...this grave conclusion is blown out of memory;...
    CL 12.155 1 It was said of [Samuel Johnson] that he preferred the Strand to the Garden of the Hesperides. But this is not the experience of imaginative men...
    PPr 12.389 5 That morbid temperament has given [Carlyle's] rhetoric a somewhat bloated character; a luxury to many imaginative and learned persons...
    Let 12.403 23 Apathies and total want of work, and reflection on the imaginative character of American life...are like seasickness...

Imaginative, adj. (1)

    Boks 7.212 6 There is another class [of books], more needful to the present age, because the currents of custom run now in another direction and leave us dry on this side;--I mean the Imaginative.

imagine, v. (12)

    SR 2.58 23 Men imagine that they communicate their virtue or vice only by overt actions...
    SR 2.80 10 [The unbalanced mind] cannot imagine how you aliens have any right to see...
    SL 2.163 6 Shall I...imagine my being here impertinent?...
    Prd1 2.229 27 The Raphael in the Dresden gallery...is the quietest and most passionless piece you can imagine;...
    Mrs1 3.133 19 ...do not...imagine that a fop can be the dispenser of honor and shame.
    Pol1 3.219 23 We must not imagine that all things are lapsing into confusion if every tender protestant be not compelled to bear his part in certain social conventions;...
    ShP 4.212 4 For executive faculty, for creation, Shakspeare is unique. No man can imagine it better.
    PI 8.27 19 William Blake...writes thus: He who does not imagine in stronger and better lineaments and in stronger and better light than his perishing mortal eye can see, does not imagine at all.
    PI 8.27 21 William Blake...writes thus: He who does not imagine in stronger and better lineaments and in stronger and better light than his perishing mortal eye can see, does not imagine at all.
    LS 11.7 18 ...I can readily imagine that [Jesus] was willing and desirous, when his disciples met, his memory should hallow their intercourse;...
    LS 11.8 17 ...many persons are apt to imagine that the very striking and personal manner in which the eating and drinking [at the Last Supper] is described, indicates a striking and formal purpose to found a festival.
    CInt 12.121 13 Do you imagine that a lie will nourish and work like a truth?

imagined, v. (4)

    Nat 1.21 18 ...the multitude imagined they saw liberty and virtue sitting by [Lord Russell's] side.
    LE 1.166 25 The view I have taken of the resources of the scholar, presupposes a subject as broad. We do not seem to have imagined its riches.
    Fdsp 2.192 18 Having imagined and invested [the commended stranger], we ask how we should stand related in conversation and action with such a man...
    Bty 6.293 21 ...the circumstances may be easily imagined in which woman may speak, vote, argue causes, legislate and drive a coach...if only it come by degrees.

imagines, v. (2)

    SR 2.74 23 If any one imagines that this law [of self-reliance] is lax, let him keep its commandment one day.
    Comp 2.99 10 The farmer imagines power and place are fine things.

imago, n. (1)

    OA 7.331 12 ...Et tunc magna mei sub terris ibit imago.

imbecile, adj. (5)

    Mrs1 3.129 2 In the year 1805, it is said, every legitimate monarch in Europe was imbecile.
    ET10 5.167 7 The robust rural Saxon degenerates in the mills to the Leicester stockinger, to the imbecile Manchester spinner...
    Schr 10.282 7 ...a true orator will make us feel that the states and kingdoms, the senators, lawyers and rich men are caterpillars' webs and caterpillars, when seen in the light of this despised and imbecile truth.
    FRep 11.519 22 We have seen the great party of property and education in the country drivelling and huckstering away...the dearest hopes of mankind;...imbecile as corpses when evil was to be prevented.
    PLT 12.46 15 If the thought...does not proceed to an act, the wise are imbecile.

imbecile, n. (2)

    Wth 6.106 3 In a free and just commonwealth, property rushes from the idle and imbecile to the industrious, brave and persevering.
    Boks 7.188 4 Unless to Thought be added Will/ Apollo is an imbecile./

imbeciles, n. (1)

    MoS 4.176 4 ...a book...or only the sound of a name, shoots a spark through the nerves, and we suddenly believe in will...fate is for imbeciles;...

imbecilities, n. (2)

    Suc 7.310 2 ...I seek one who shall make me forget or overcome the frigidities and imbecilities into which I fall.
    Prch 10.219 8 It is certain that...many imbecilities...will occur.

imbecility, n. (18)

    LT 1.282 13 A great perplexity hangs like a cloud on the brow of all cultivated persons, a certain imbecility in the best spirits...
    Exp 3.51 21 Very mortifying is the reluctant experience that some unfriendly excess or imbecility neutralizes the promise of genius.
    Mrs1 3.150 2 Woman, with her instinct of behavior, instantly detects in man...any coldness or imbecility...
    UGM 4.12 9 ...we sit by the fire and take hold on the poles of the earth. This quasi omnipresence supplies the imbecility of our condition.
    UGM 4.18 18 The imbecility of men is always inviting the impudence of power.
    MoS 4.182 17 [The spiritualist] had rather stand charged with the imbecility of skepticism, than with untruth.
    NMW 4.232 23 History is full...of the imbecility of kings and governors.
    NMW 4.246 26 We can not, in the universal imbecility, indecision and indolence of men, sufficiently congratulate ourselves on this strong and ready actor [Napoleon]...
    Pow 6.54 22 ...the key to all ages is--Imbecility; imbecility in the vast majority of men at all times...
    Pow 6.74 18 ...the step from knowing to doing is rarely taken. 'T is a step out of a chalk circle of imbecility into fruitfulness.
    Wsp 6.212 24 In spite of our imbecility and terrors...the moral sense reappears to-day...
    PPo 8.248 10 ...it is only a few delicate spirits who are sufficient to see that the whole web of convention is the imbecility of those whom it entangles...
    SovE 10.192 24 The strength of the animal to eat and to be luxurious and to usurp is rudeness and imbecility.
    Schr 10.281 9 Everybody hates imbecility and shortcoming, not new methods.
    War 11.155 20 The instinct of self-help is very early unfolded...only in the childhood and imbecility of the other instincts...
    FSLN 11.217 12 The one thing not to be forgiven to intellectual persons is... to take their ideas from others. From this want of manly rest in their own and rash acceptance of other people's watchwords come the imbecility and fatigue of their conversation.
    PLT 12.31 3 The one thing not to be forgiven to intellectual persons is that they believe in the ideas of others. From this deference comes the imbecility and fatigue of their society...
    II 12.75 26 ...in spite of our imbecility and terrors...the moral sense reappears forever with the same angelic newness that has been from of old the fountain of poetry and beauty and strength.

Imbecility, n. (1)

    Pow 6.54 22 ...the key to all ages is--Imbecility;...

imbibe, v. (1)

    Farm 7.145 8 The plants imbibe the materials which they want from the air and the ground.

imbibed, v. (2)

    YA 1.369 26 We in the Atlantic states, by position, have...imbibed easily an European culture.
    PPh 4.53 24 ...Plato, in Egypt and in Eastern pilgrimages, imbibed the idea of one Deity...

imbibing, n. (1)

    OS 2.288 17 [Genius] is a larger imbibing of the common heart.

imbibing, v. (1)

    Farm 7.144 16 The plant is all suction-pipe,--imbibing from the ground by its root, from the air by its leaves, with all its might.

imbroglio, n. (2)

    Ill 6.308 6 When thou dost return/ .../ Beholding.../ ...out of endeavor/ To change and to flow,/ The gas become solid,/ And phantoms and nothings/ Return to be things,/ And endless imbroglio/ Is law and the world,--/Then first shalt thou know,/ That in the wild turmoil,/ Horsed on the Proteus,/ Thou ridest to power,/ And to endurance./
    ACri 12.295 17 ...if the English island had been larger and the Straits of Dover wider, to keep it at pleasure a little out of the imbroglio of Europe, they might have managed to feed on Shakspeare for some ages yet;...

imbruted, v. (1)

    Nat 1.72 14 ...he that works most in [the world] is but a half-man, and whilst his arms are strong and his digestion good, his mind is imbruted...

imbue, v. (1)

    Nat 1.59 6 ...there is something ungrateful in expanding too curiously the particulars of the general proposition, that all culture tends to imbue us with idealism.

imbued, v. (1)

    F 6.44 23 ...the great man, that is, the man most imbued with the spirit of the time, is the impressionable man;...

imbuti, adj. (1)

    PC 8.225 24 ...Hunc solem, et stellas, et decedentia certis/ Tempora momentis, sunt qui formidine nulla/ Imbuti spectant./

imitable, adj. (1)

    Pol1 3.199 8 ...we ought to remember...that [the State's institutions] all are imitable, all alterable;...

imitate, v. (10)

    SR 2.82 12 We imitate;...
    SR 2.83 6 ...never imitate.
    Pt1 3.7 21 Criticism is infested with a cant of materialism, which... confounds [poets] with those whose province is action but who quit it to imitate the sayers.
    ET4 5.55 10 [The Celts] planted Britain, and gave to the seas and mountains names which...imitate the pure voices of nature.
    ET9 5.147 22 ...in all companies, each of [the English] has too good an opinion of himself to imitate anybody.
    Comc 8.164 26 ...the inertia of men inclines them, when the [religious] sentiment sleeps, to imitate that thing it did;...
    Grts 8.308 1 In morals this [individual bias] is conscience; in intellect, genius; in practice, talent;-not to imitate or surpass a particular man in his way, but to bring out your own new way;...
    EzRy 10.382 7 Always inclined to notice ministers, and frequently attempting, when only five or six years old, to imitate them by preaching... [Ezra Ripley] had an ardent desire to be preacher of the gospel.
    War 11.153 3 The [early] leaders, picked men of a courage and vigor tried and augmented in fifty battles, are emulous to distinguish themselves above each other by new merits, as clemency, hospitality, splendor of living. The people imitate the chiefs.
    MAng1 12.220 9 The human form, says Goethe, cannot be comprehended through seeing its surface. It must be stripped of the muscles...the hidden, the reposing, the foundation of the apparent, must be searched, if one would really see and imitate what moves as a beautiful, inseparable whole in living waves before the eye.

imitated, v. (8)

    YA 1.367 12 There is no feature of the old countries that strikes an American with more agreeable surprise than the beautiful gardens of Europe;...works easily imitated here...
    Hist 2.21 13 ...the Persian imitated in the slender shafts and capitals of his architecture the stem and flower of the lotus and palm...
    ET4 5.46 4 [The English] have assimilating force, since they are imitated by their foreign subjects;...
    Art2 7.54 10 The first form in which [savages] built a house would be the first form of their public and religious edifice also. This form becomes immediately sacred in the eyes of their children, and...is imitated with more splendor in each succeeding generation.
    Elo1 7.79 23 ...there are men of the most peaceful way of life...who are felt wherever they go...men who...when they act, act effectually, and what they do is imitated;...
    SA 8.88 11 If the intellect were always awake...the man might go in huckaback or mats, and his dress would be admired and imitated.
    QO 8.192 2 ...Voltaire usually imitated, but with such superiority that Dubuc said: He is like the false Amphitryon; although the stranger, it is always he who has the air of being master of the house.
    FRep 11.512 7 Flaxman, with his Greek taste, selected and combined the loveliest forms, which were executed in English clay [by Wedgewood]; sent boxes of these as gifts to every court of Europe, and formed the taste of the world. It was a renaissance of the breakfast-table and china-closet. The brave manufacturers made their fortune. The jewellers imitated the revived models in silver and gold.

imitates, v. (2)

    Ill 6.312 16 [The dreariest alderman] imitates the air and actions of people whom he admires...
    EWI 11.122 17 The owner of a New York manor imitates the mansion and equipage of the London nobleman;...

imitating, v. (4)

    MR 1.248 11 What is a man born for but to be...a restorer of truth and good, imitating that great Nature which embosoms us all...
    PPh 4.65 17 ...God invented and bestowed sight on us for this purpose,-- that on surveying the circles of intelligence in the heavens, we might properly employ those of our own minds...and that...we might, by imitating the uniform revolutions of divinity, set right our own wanderings and blunders.
    Thor 10.459 21 [Thoreau] listened impatiently to news or bonmots gleaned from London circles; and though he tried to be civil, these anecdotes fatigued him. The men were all imitating each other...
    Milt1 12.260 27 Not imitating but rivalling Shakspeare, [Milton] scattered, in tones of prolonged and delicate melody, his pastoral and romantic fancies;...

imitation, n. (15)

    DSA 1.145 25 Imitation cannot go above its model.
    SR 2.46 13 There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction...that imitation is suicide;...
    SR 2.82 12 ...what is imitation but the travelling of the mind?
    SR 2.87 7 The Emperor held it impossible to make a perfect army, says Las Casas, without abolishing our arms...until, in imitation of the Roman custom, the soldier should receive his supply of corn...and bake his bread himself.
    Int 2.336 27 Not by any conscious imitation of particular forms are the grand strokes of the painter executed...
    Art1 2.351 7 ...in our fine arts, not imitation but creation is the aim.
    Pt1 3.16 1 No imitation or playing of these things [of nature] would content [the coachman or the hunter];...
    Pol1 3.216 1 The antidote to this abuse of formal government is...the growth of the Individual;...of whom the existing government is, it must be owned, but a shabby imitation.
    Art2 7.45 1 A very coarse imitation of the human form on canvas, or in wax-work;...these things give to unpractised eyes...almost as much pleasure as a statue of Canova or a picture of Titian.
    Art2 7.45 4 A very coarse imitation of the human form on canvas, or in wax-work; a coarse sketch in colors of a landscape, in which imitation is all that is attempted,--these things give to unpractised eyes...almost as much pleasure as a statue of Canova or a picture of Titian.
    QO 8.179 1 ...we quote temples and houses, tables and chairs by imitation.
    QO 8.180 7 There is imitation, model and suggestion, to the very archangels, if we knew their history.
    QO 8.188 2 Is...all art Chinese imitation?...
    FRep 11.534 8 We lose our invention and descend into imitation.
    AgMs 12.363 14 These [poor farmers] should be holden up to imitation, and their methods detailed;...

Imitation of Christ [Thomas (1)

    Boks 7.219 1 After the Hebrew and Greek Scriptures...[the sacred books] are...the Chinese Classic, of four books, containing the wisdom of Confucius and Mencius. Also such other books as have acquired a semi-canonical authority in the world, as expressing the highest sentiment and hope of nations. Such are the Hermes Trismegistus...the Imitation of Christ, of Thomas a Kempis;...

imitations, n. (6)

    Nat 1.16 4 ...almost all the individual forms [in nature] are agreeable to the eye, as is proved by our endless imitations of some of them...
    Nat 1.68 3 The American...is surprised on entering York Minster or St. Peter's at Rome, by the feeling that these structures are imitations also, - faint copies of an invisible archetype.
    DL 7.111 17 The houses of the rich are confectioners' shops, where we get sweetmeats and wine; the houses of the poor are imitations of these to the extent of their ability.
    PI 8.19 20 ...Poets are standing transporters, whose employment consists... in producing apparent imitations of unapparent natures...
    EdAd 11.385 17 Our books and fine arts are imitations;...
    Shak1 11.451 3 The palaces [Englishmen] compass earth and sea to enter, the magnificence and personages of royal and imperial abodes, are shabby imitations and caricatures of [Shakespeare's]...

imitative, adj. (6)

    AmS 1.114 12 The spirit of the American freeman is already suspected to be...imitative...
    GoW 4.264 7 This striving after imitative expression...is significant of the aim of nature...
    Art2 7.38 23 From the first imitative babble of a child to the despotism of eloquence;...Art is the spirit's combination of things to serve its end.
    WD 7.180 6 ...this curious, peering, itinerant, imitative America...will take off its dusty shoes...
    MLit 12.319 18 [Shelley's] muse is uniformly imitative;...
    EurB 12.373 13 ...we can easily believe that the behavior of the ball-room and of the hotel has not failed to draw some addition of dignity and grace from the fair ideals with which the imagination of a novelist has filled the heads of the most imitative class.

imitator, n. (2)

    DSA 1.145 26 The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity.
    DSA 1.146 2 In the imitator something else is natural...

immaculate, adj. (1)

    SR 2.60 7 We love [honor] and pay it homage because it is...of an old immaculate pedigree...

immanence, n. (1)

    QO 8.202 8 There is always in [originals] a style and weight of speech which the immanence of the oracle bestowed...

immanent, adj. (1)

    MN 1.221 23 The sanity of man needs the poise of this immanent force.

immaterial, adj. (3)

    MN 1.212 27 ...[the stars] would have such poets as Newton, Herschel and Laplace, that they may re-exist and re-appear in the finer world of rational souls, and fill that realm with their fame. So is it with all immaterial objects.
    ShP 4.211 1 ...the occasion which gave the saint's meaning the form...of a code of laws, is immaterial compared with the universality of its application.
    Wom 11.406 1 ...as more delicate mercuries of the imponderable and immaterial influences, what [women] say and think is the shadow of coming events.

immeasurable, adj. (9)

    DSA 1.146 11 ...live with the privilege of the immeasurable mind.
    YA 1.364 26 Our garden is the immeasurable earth.../
    Int 2.335 12 [The thought] is...a piece of genuine and immeasurable greatness.
    NR 3.247 17 ...the most sincere and revolutionary doctrine...shall in a few weeks be coldly set aside...and the same immeasurable credulity demanded for new audacities.
    Bty 6.305 5 Into every beautiful object there enters somewhat immeasurable and divine...
    SA 8.91 19 ...presidents of the United States are afflicted by rude Western and Southern gossips...until the gossip's immeasurable legs are tired of sitting;...
    PC 8.221 8 [The scholar] has accosted this immeasurable Nature, and got clear answers.
    MoL 10.256 2 Sincerity is, in dangerous times, discovered to be an immeasurable advantage.
    MLit 12.310 11 Over every true poem lingers a certain wild beauty, immeasurable;...

immeasurable, n. (1)

    Bty 6.305 25 ...the fact is familiar that...a phrase of poetry, plants wings at our shoulders; as if the Divinity, in his approaches...deigns to draw a truer line, which the mind knows and owns. This is that haughty force of beauty... which the poets praise,--under calm and precise outline the immeasurable and divine;...

immeasurableness, n. (1)

    PC 8.223 27 The immeasurableness of Nature is not more astounding than [man's] power to gather all her omnipotence into a manageable rod or wedge...

immeasurably, adv. (8)

    Nat2 3.169 16 The day, immeasurably long, sleeps over the broad hills and warm wide fields.
    PPh 4.65 26 [Plato] said, Culture; but he first admitted its basis, and gave immeasurably the first place to advantages of nature.
    Elo1 7.88 8 The statement of the fact...sinks before the statement of the law, which requires immeasurably higher powers...
    WD 7.171 11 ...the treasures which Nature spent itself to amass...are given immeasurably to all.
    PPo 8.241 26 Firdusi...has written in the Shah Nameh the annals...of Karun (the Persian Croesus), the immeasurably rich gold-maker...
    MMEm 10.432 19 It was the privilege of certain boys to have [Mary Moody Emerson's] immeasurably high standard indicated to their childhood;...

immediate, adj. (14)

    Nat 1.29 15 This immediate dependence of language upon nature...never loses its power to affect us.
    AmS 1.101 4 ...[the scholar]...must relinquish display and immediate fame.
    LT 1.290 11 ...men seem to fear and to shun [the Moral Sentiment] when it comes barely to view in our immediate neighborhood.
    NR 3.244 4 When [a man] has exhausted for the time the nourishment to be drawn from any one person or thing, that object is withdrawn from his observation, and though still in his immediate neighborhood, he does not suspect its presence.
    NMW 4.242 20 ...those who smarted under the immediate rigors of the new monarch [Napoleon], pardoned them as the necessary severities of the military system which had driven out the oppressor.
    ET1 5.6 25 Here is my [Greenough's] theory of structure...the entire and immediate banishment of all make-shift and make-believe.
    Wsp 6.231 17 A great man cannot be hindered of the effect of his act, because it is immediate.
    Civ 7.27 4 Hear the definition which Kant gives of moral conduct: Act always so that the immediate motive of thy will may become a universal rule for all intelligent beings.
    MMEm 10.430 24 ...one secret sentiment of virtue...will tell, in the world of spirits, of God's immediate presence...
    MMEm 10.431 10 [Mary Moody Emerson] checks herself amid her passionate prayers for immediate communion with God;...
    EWI 11.113 26 The apprenticeship system [in the West Indies] is understood to have proceeded from Lord Brougham, and was by him urged on his colleagues, who, it is said, were inclined to the policy of immediate emancipation.
    EWI 11.123 18 The customer is the immediate jewel of our souls.
    ACiv 11.311 3 All experience agrees that [emancipation] should be immediate.
    SHC 11.433 27 [Sleepy Hollow's] seclusion from the village in its immediate neighborhood had made it to all the inhabitants an easy retreat on a Sabbath day...

immediately, adv. (25)

    AmS 1.98 8 I learn immediately from any speaker how much he has already lived...
    LT 1.263 12 There is no interest or institution so poor and withered, but if a new strong man could be born into it, he would immediately redeem and replace it.
    NER 3.251 23 The spirit of protest and of detachment drove the members of these [Sabbath and Bible] Conventions to bear testimony against the Church, and immediately afterwards to declare their discontent with these Conventions...
    NER 3.254 9 ...it was directly in the spirit and genius of the age, what happened in one instance when a church censured and threatened to excommunicate one of its members...the threatened individual immediately excommunicated the church...
    NER 3.273 14 Berkeley, having listened to the many lively things [Lord Bathurst's guests] had to say...displayed his plan with such an astonishing and animating force of eloquence and enthusiasm that they...after some pause, rose up all together with earnestness, exclaiming, Let us set out with him immediately.
    NMW 4.226 13 It struck Dumont that he could fit [Mirabeau's speech] with a peroration, which he wrote in pencil immediately...
    NMW 4.231 9 My hand of iron, [Bonaparte] said...was immediately connected with my head.
    NMW 4.235 4 My method was immediately followed by the adjoining batteries...
    NMW 4.243 25 I have only to put some gold-lace on the coat of my virtuous republicans [said Napoleon] and they immediately become just what I wish them.
    ET7 5.121 14 Whilst I was in London, M. Guizot arrived there on his escape from Paris, in February, 1848. Many private friends called on him. His name was immediately proposed as an honorary member of the Athenaeum.
    ET12 5.212 4 ...the rich libraries collected at every one of many thousands of houses [in England], give an advantage not to be attained by a youth in this country, when one thinks how much more and better may be learned by a scholar who, immediately on hearing of a book, can consult it...
    Wth 6.117 18 In England...I was assured...that liberality with money is as rare and as immediately famous a virtue as it is here.
    Art2 7.54 8 The first form in which [savages] built a house would be the first form of their public and religious edifice also. This form becomes immediately sacred in the eyes of their children...
    Clbs 7.230 15 ...a natural fact has only half its value until a fact in moral nature, its counterpart, is stated. Then they confirm and adorn each other; a story is matched by another story. And that may be the reason why, when a gentleman has told a good thing, he immediately tells it again.
    Cour 7.273 2 Napoleon said well, My hand is immediately connected with my head;...
    OA 7.335 19 [John Adams] received a premature report of his son's election...and told the reporter he had been hoaxed, for it was not yet time for any news to arrive. The informer...insisted on repairing to the meeting-house, and proclaimed it aloud to the congregation, who were so overjoyed that they rose in their seats and cheered thrice. Whitney dismissed them immediately.
    Plu 10.314 6 [Plutarch] believes that the souls of infants pass immediately into a better and more divine state.
    LLNE 10.339 15 I attribute much importance to two papers of Dr. Channing, one on Milton and one on Napoleon, which were the first specimens in this country of that large criticism which in England had given power and fame to the Edinburgh Review. They were...immediately fruitful in provoking emulation which lifted the style of Journalism.
    MMEm 10.410 25 [Mary Moody Emerson] exclaimed, God has given you a voice that you might use it in the service of your fellow creatures. Go instantly and call Elizabeth till you find [Elizabeth Hoar and her niece]. The man went immediately...
    HDC 11.31 2 ...the town of Concord was settled by a party of non-conformists, immediately from Great Britain.
    HDC 11.74 27 The British retreated immediately towards the village [Concord]...
    War 11.155 14 ...the appearance of the other instincts [than self-help] immediately modifies and controls this;...
    MAng1 12.228 12 ...[Michelangelo] told Vasari that he often slept in his clothes [while painting the Sistine Chapel ceiling], both because he was too weary to undress, and because he would rise in the night and go immediately to work.
    Pray 12.351 4 Many men have contributed a single expression, a single word to the language of devotion, which is immediately caught and stereotyped in the prayers of their church and nation.
    EurB 12.368 27 ...with a complete satisfaction [Wordsworth]...celebrated his own [life] with the religion of a true priest. Hence the antagonism which was immediately felt between his poetry and the spirit of the age...

immemorial, adj. (4)

    PC 8.215 9 Even the races that we still call savage or semi-savage, and which preserve their arts from immemorial traditions, vindicate their faculty by the skill with which they make their yam-cloths, pipes, bows...
    MoL 10.257 12 War, seeking for the roots of strength, comes upon the moral aspects at once. In quiet times, custom...brings in the brazen devil, as by immemorial right.
    EWI 11.106 24 Immemorial usage preserves the memory of positive law, long after all traces of the occasion, reason, authority and time of its introduction are lost;...
    EPro 11.319 23 ...slavery overpowers the disgust of the moral sentiment only through immemorial usage.

immense, adj. (127)

    Nat 1.39 14 ...we are impressed and even daunted by the immense Universe to be explored.
    AmS 1.106 26 The poor and the low find some amends to their immense moral capacity...
    MN 1.216 4 The imaginative faculty of the soul must be fed with objects immense and eternal.
    MR 1.235 10 ...will you give up the immense advantages reaped from the division of labor...
    MR 1.245 16 Immense wisdom and riches are in [going without the conveniences of life].
    LT 1.260 8 Here is this great fact of Conservatism, entrenched in its immense redoubt...
    Tran 1.344 22 [Transcendentalists] prolong their privilege of childhood in this wise; of doing nothing, but making immense demands on all the gladiators in the lists of action and fame.
    YA 1.365 2 The task of surveying, planting, and building upon this immense tract requires an education and a sentiment commensurate thereto.
    YA 1.375 27 An empire is an immense egotism.
    YA 1.392 12 We are full of vanity, of which the most signal proof is our sensitiveness to foreign and especially English censure. One cause of this is our immense reading...
    SR 2.64 23 We lie in the lap of immense intelligence...
    Comp 2.95 8 The fallacy lay in the immense concession that the bad are successful;...
    Comp 2.115 5 Human labor...is one immense illustration of the perfect compensation of the universe.
    Hsm1 2.248 24 ...a Stoicism not of the schools but of the blood, shines in every anecdote [of Plutarch], and has given that book its immense fame.
    OS 2.295 20 Before the immense possibilities of man all mere experience... shrinks away.
    OS 2.297 2 ...revering the soul, and learning, as the ancient said, that its beauty is immense, man will come to see that the world is the perennial miracle which the soul worketh...
    Cir 2.304 19 ...in its first and narrowest pulses [the heart] already tends...to immense and innumerable expansions.
    Int 2.333 23 ...notwithstanding our utter incapacity to produce anything like Hamlet and Othello, see the perfect reception this wit and immense knowledge of life and liquid eloquence find in us all.
    Art1 2.363 16 ...in its essence, immense and universal, [art] is impatient of working with lame or tied hands...
    Mrs1 3.135 19 Cardinal Caprara...defended himself from the glances of Napoleon by an immense pair of green spectacles.
    Nat2 3.192 4 The appearance strikes the eye everywhere of an aimless society, of aimless nations. Were the ends of nature so great and cogent as to exact this immense sacrifice of men?
    NR 3.239 22 Hence the immense benefit of party in politics, as it reveals faults of character in a chief, which the intellectual force of the persons... could not have seen.
    NR 3.245 25 ...each man's genius being nearly and affectionately explored, he is justified in his individuality, as his nature is found to be immense;...
    UGM 4.12 14 In one of those celestial days when heaven and earth meet and adorn each other...we wish for a thousand heads, a thousand bodies, that we might celebrate its immense beauty in many ways and places.
    UGM 4.33 2 No man, in all the procession of famous men, is reason or illumination or that essence we were looking for; but is an exhibition, in some quarter, of new possibilities. Could we one day complete the immense figure which these flagrant points compose!
    PPh 4.46 27 There is a moment in the history of every nation, when...the perceptive powers reach their ripeness and have not yet become microscopic: so that man, at that instant...with his feet still planted on the immense forces of night, converses by his eyes and brain with solar and stellar creation.
    PPh 4.52 15 The country...of men faithful in doctrine and in practice to the idea of a deaf, unimplorable, immense fate, is Asia;...
    PPh 4.68 5 Plato...attempted as if on the part of human intellect, once for all to do it adequate homage,--homage fit for the immense soul to receive...
    PPh 4.70 8 ...the Banquet [of Plato] is a teaching in the same spirit [of ascension]...that the love of the sexes is initial, and symbolizes at a distance the passion of the soul for that immense lake of beauty it exists to seek.
    PPh 4.72 10 Plain old uncle as [Socrates] was...an immense talker,--the rumor ran that on one or two occasions, in the war with Boeotia, he had shown a determination which had covered the retreat of a troop;...
    SwM 4.123 6 [Swedenborg's theological writings'] immense and sandy diffuseness is like the prairie or the desert...
    SwM 4.133 8 There is an immense chain of intermediation [in Swedenborg' s system of the world]...which bereaves every agency of all freedom and character.
    SwM 4.134 19 Though the agency of the Lord is in every line referred to by name [by Swedenborg], it never becomes alive. There is no lustre in that eye which gazes from the centre and which should vivify the immense dependency of beings.
    NMW 4.233 4 Here was a man who in each moment and emergency knew what to do next. It is an immense comfort and refreshment to the spirits, not only of kings, but of citizens.
    NMW 4.239 5 [Bonaparte's] achievement of business was immense...
    NMW 4.257 9 ...what was the result of [Napoleon's] vast talent and power, of these immense armies...
    GoW 4.273 8 The immense horizon which journeys with us lends its majesty to trifles...
    GoW 4.290 7 We shall learn to draw rents and revenues from the immense patrimony of the old and the recent ages.
    ET3 5.35 5 ...the traveller [in England] rides as on a cannon-ball...and reads quietly the Times newspaper, which, by its immense correspondence and reporting seems to have machinized the rest of the world for his occasion.
    ET3 5.39 4 The land [in England] naturally abounds with game; immense heaths and downs are paved with quails, grouse and woodcock...
    ET5 5.92 1 The nation [England] sits in the immense city they have builded...
    ET5 5.92 19 [The English] have approved...their British birth, by husbandry and immense wheat harvests;...
    ET16 5.275 20 I told Carlyle that...I like the [English] people;...but meantime, I surely know that as soon as I return to Massachusetts I shall lapse at once into the feeling, which the geography of America inevitably inspires, that we play the game with immense advantage;...
    F 6.6 12 The great immense mind of Jove is not to be transgressed.
    F 6.22 4 ...though Fate is immense, so is Power...immense.
    F 6.22 5 ...though Fate is immense, so is Power, which is the other fact in the dual world, immense.
    Pow 6.53 11 ...if there be such a tie that wherever the mind of man goes, nature will accompany him, perhaps there are men whose magnetisms are of that force to draw material and elemental powers, and, where they appear, immense instrumentalities organize around them.
    Wth 6.101 5 ...a mass is an immense centre of motion [said the Marseilles banker]...
    Wth 6.109 25 ...we charged threepence a pound for carrying cotton, sixpence for tobacco, and so on; which...brought into the country an immense prosperity...
    Ctr 6.158 4 ...the poet cultivated becomes a stockholder in both companies,--say Mr. Curfew in the Curfew stock, and in the humanity stock,--and, in the last, exults as much in the demonstration of the unsoundness of Curfew, as his interest in the former gives him pleasure in the currency of Curfew. For the depreciation of his Curfew stock only shows the immense values of the humanity stock.
    Bhr 6.181 12 ...each man carries in his eye the exact indication of his rank in the immense scale of men...
    Wsp 6.209 17 ...in the momentary absence of any religious genius that could offset the immense material activity, there is a feeling that religion is gone.
    SS 7.11 21 The benefits of affection are immense;...
    Civ 7.21 12 ...the effect of a framed or stone house is immense on the tranquillity, power and refinement of the builder.
    Civ 7.31 21 I see the immense material prosperity...
    Art2 7.57 1 Popular institutions...and the immense harvest of economical inventions, are the fruit of the equality and the boundless liberty of lucrative callings.
    DL 7.126 2 ...we hold fast, all our lives long, a faith...in clean and noble relations, notwithstanding our total inexperience of a true society. Certainly this was not the intention of Nature, to produce, with all this immense expenditure of means and power, so cheap and humble a result.
    Farm 7.144 4 The good rocks...say to [the farmer]: We have the sacred power as we received it. We have not failed of our trust, and now--when in our immense day the hour is at last struck--take the gas we have hoarded, mingle it with water, and let it be free to grow in plants and animals and obey the thought of man.
    WD 7.159 3 ...the immense productions of the laboratory, are new in this century...
    WD 7.172 12 ...the earth is the cup, the sky is the cover, of the immense bounty of Nature which is offered us for our daily aliment;...
    Cour 7.253 23 [Self-Sacrifice] makes the renown...of Chatham, whose scornful magnanimity gave him immense popularity;...
    Cour 7.255 20 ...the immense esteem in which [courage] is held proves it to be rare.
    OA 7.323 15 It were strange if a man should turn his sixtieth year without a feeling of immense relief from the number of dangers he has escaped.
    PI 8.9 5 While the student ponders this immense unity, he observes that all things...have a mysterious relation to his thoughts and his life;...
    PI 8.9 17 The world is an immense picture-book of every passage in human life.
    PI 8.23 5 The poet discovers...that Nature is the immense shadow of man.
    PI 8.47 13 ...human passion, seizing these constitutional tunes, aims to fill them with appropriate words, or marry music to thought, believing...that for every thought its proper melody or rhyme exists, though the odds are immense against our finding it...
    PI 8.74 17 I doubt never...the immense wealth of the mind.
    Res 8.143 9 It was thought that the immense production of gold would make gold cheap as pewter.
    Res 8.143 10 ...the immense expansion of trade has wanted every ounce of gold...
    Res 8.154 6 ...the resources of America and its future will be immense only to wise and virtuous men.
    QO 8.180 5 If we confine ourselves to literature, 't is easy to see that the debt is immense to past thought.
    PC 8.221 2 ...one of the distinctions of our century has been the devotion of cultivated men to natural science. The benefits thence derived to the arts and to civilization are signal and immense.
    PC 8.222 20 ...when [Newton] saw, in the fall of an apple to the ground, the fall...of the sun and of all suns to the centre, that perception was accompanied by the spasm of delight by which the intellect greets a fact more immense still...
    PPo 8.250 1 Hafiz praises...birds, mornings and music, to give vent to his immense hilarity and sympathy with every form of beauty and joy;...
    Imtl 8.334 24 The mind delights in immense time;...
    Imtl 8.337 14 The love of life...seems to indicate...a conviction of immense resources and possibilities proper to us...
    PerF 10.80 6 ...[Bonaparte's] will is an immense battery discharging irresistible volleys of power...
    Chr2 10.100 12 ...it is only as fast as this hearing [of these high communications] from another is authorized by its consent with [a man's] own, that it is pure and safe to each; and all receiving from abroad must be controlled by this immense reservation.
    Chr2 10.115 6 Jesus has immense claims on the gratitude of mankind...
    Edc1 10.154 12 ...the adoption of simple discipline and the following of nature, involves at once immense claims on the time, the thoughts, on the life of the teacher.
    SovE 10.198 26 While the immense energy of the sentiment of duty and the awe of the supernatural exert incomparable influence on the mind,-yet it is often perverted...
    Prch 10.228 10 An era in human history is the life of Jesus; and the immense influence for good leaves all the perversion and superstition almost harmless.
    Prch 10.237 23 ...when we...come into the house of thought and worship, we come with the purpose...to see that life...is...a growth after immutable laws under beneficent influences the most immense.
    Schr 10.265 23 Like [the pearl-diver and the diamond-merchant] [the poet] will joyfully lose days and months...in the profound hope that one restoring, all rewarding, immense success will arrive at last...
    Plu 10.294 18 ...this neglect by [Plutarch's] contemporaries has been compensated by an immense popularity in modern nations.
    Plu 10.302 3 In [Plutarch's] immense quotation and allusion we quickly cease to discriminate between what he quotes and what he invents.
    Plu 10.302 24 [Plutarch] has preserved for us a multitude of precious sentences...of authors whose books are lost; and these embalmed fragments...have come to be proverbs of later mankind. I hope it is only my immense ignorance that makes me believe that they do not survive out of his pages...
    LLNE 10.361 13 ...there was immense hope in these young people [at Brook Farm].
    Carl 10.489 1 Thomas Carlyle is an immense talker...
    EWI 11.99 7 We are met to exchange congratulations on the anniversary of an event singular in the history of civilization;...a day which gave the immense fortification of a fact, of gross history, to ethical abstractions.
    War 11.169 5 If you have a nation of men who have risen to that height of moral cultivation that they will not declare war or carry arms...you have a nation...of true, great and able men. Let me know more of that nation;... I shall find them...men of immense industry;...
    FSLC 11.211 21 The immense power of rectitude is apt to be forgotten in politics.
    FSLN 11.220 20 There is always...men who calculate on the immense ignorance of the masses;...
    TPar 11.292 5 Ah, my brave brother [Theodore Parker]! it seems as if, in a frivolous age, our loss were immense...
    EPro 11.317 25 When we consider the immense opposition that has been neutralized or converted by the progress of the war...one can hardly say the deliberation [on the Emancipation Proclamation] was too long.
    EPro 11.323 24 The [Civil] war was and is an immense mischief...
    EPro 11.323 25 The [Civil] war...brought with it the immense benefit of drawing a line and rallying the free states to fix it impassably...
    SMC 11.376 2 A duty so severe has been discharged [in the Civil War], and with such immense results of good...that, though the cannon volleys have a sound of funeral echoes, [men] can yet hear through them the benedictions of their country and mankind.
    EdAd 11.384 26 The aspect this country presents is...an immense apparatus of cunning machinery...
    EdAd 11.389 7 We have a bad war, many victories, each of which converts the country into an immense chanticleer;...
    SHC 11.430 17 We will not jealously guard a few atoms under immense marbles...
    Shak1 11.451 22 The egotism of men is immense.
    Scot 11.465 2 [Scott] apprehended in advance the immense enlargement of the reading public...
    Scot 11.467 11 Disasters only drove [Scott] to immense exertion.
    FRep 11.522 11 [The American] sits secure in the possession of his vast domain...and feels the security that there can be...no danger from any excess of importation of art or learning into a country of...such immense digestive power.
    FRep 11.525 23 Nature works in immense time...
    FRep 11.533 19 America is provincial. It is an immense Halifax.
    PLT 12.6 14 My belief in the use of a course of philosophy is that the student...shall learn [the mind's] subtle but immense power...
    PLT 12.21 11 The retrospective value of each new thought is immense...
    PLT 12.30 23 When, moved by love, a man...rushes at immense personal sacrifice on some public, self-immolating act, it is not done for others, but to fulfil a high necessity of his proper character.
    PLT 12.31 21 There is no property or relation in that immense arsenal of forces which the earth is, but some man is at last found who affects this...
    PLT 12.42 2 I am bewildered by the immense variety of attractions and cannot take a step;...
    PLT 12.44 17 If you cut or break in two a block or stone and press the two parts closely together, you can indeed bring the particles very near, but never again so near that they shall attract each other so that you can take up the block as one. That indescribably small interval...has forever severed the practical unity. Such is the immense deduction from power by discontinuity.
    PLT 12.51 17 Immense is the patience of Nature.
    PLT 12.55 3 The natural remedy against...this desultory universality of ours, this immense ground-juniper falling abroad and not gathered up into any columnar tree, is to substitute realism for sentimentalism;...
    PLT 12.56 6 The right partisan is a heady man, who...sees some one thing with heat and exaggeration; and if he falls among other narrow men...seems inspired and a god-send to those who wish to...carry a point. 'T is the difference between progress by railroad and by walking across the broken country. Immense speed, but only in one direction.
    PLT 12.61 4 ...the soul in which one [mind or heart] predominates is ever watchful and jealous when such immense claims are made for one as seem injurious to the other.
    Mem 12.91 4 The builder of the mind found it not less needful that it should have retroaction, and command its past act and deed. Perception, though it were immense...was not sufficient.
    CL 12.136 22 Linnaeus, early in life, read a discourse at the University of Upsala on the necessity of travelling in one's own country, based on the conviction...that in every district were swamps, or beaches, or rocks, or mountains, which...were capable of yielding immense benefit.
    CL 12.154 1 ...what strength and fecundity [in the sea], from the sea-monsters, hugest of animals, to the primary forms of which it is the immense cradle...
    CL 12.164 2 Nature speaks to the imagination; first, through her grand style,-the hint of immense force and unity which her works convey;...
    Bost 12.207 8 With all their love of his person, [the people of Boston] took immense pleasure in turning out the governor and deputy and assistants...
    MAng1 12.221 27 There needs no better proof of our instinctive feeling of the immense expression of which the human figure is capable than the uniform tendency which the religion of every country has betrayed towards Anthropomorphism...
    MLit 12.310 18 In looking at the library of the Present Age, we are first struck with the fact of the immense miscellany.
    EurB 12.372 27 ...the novels, which come to us in every ship from England, have an importance increased by the immense extension of their circulation through the new cheap press...
    Trag 12.408 9 Destiny properly is...an immense whim;...

immensely, adv. (12)

    OS 2.273 21 ...we habitually refer the immensely sundered stars to one concave sphere.
    Chr1 3.93 4 This immensely stretched trade...centres in [the natural merchant's] brain only;...
    Ctr 6.134 8 The preservation of the species was a point of such necessity that nature has secured it at all hazards by immensely overloading the passion...
    CbW 6.254 10 Rough, selfish despots serve men immensely...
    OA 7.320 16 ...the creed of the street is, Old Age is not disgraceful, but immensely disadvantageous.
    Prch 10.227 18 The Catholic Church has been immensely rich in men and influences.
    LLNE 10.364 23 The art of letter-writing, it is said, was immensely cultivated [at Brook Farm].
    Thor 10.484 14 There is a flower known to botanists...which grows on the most inaccessible cliffs of the Tyrolese mountains...and which the hunter, tempted...by his love (for it is immensely valued by the Swiss maidens), climbs the cliffs to gather...
    AKan 11.263 5 ...now, vast property...webs of party, cover the land with a network that immensely multiplies the dangers of war.
    PLT 12.25 25 All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enchance immensely the value of your first.
    PLT 12.28 19 [Nature] is immensely rich;...
    CL 12.167 1 Matter, how immensely soever enlarged by the telescope, remains the lesser half.

immenseness, n. (1)

    DL 7.122 3 ...[the most polite and accurate men of Oxford University] found such an immenseness of wit and such a solidity of judgment in [Lord Falkland]...that they frequently resorted and dwelt with him...

immensities, n. (1)

    SS 7.10 2 [The ends of thought]...belong to the immensities and eternities.

immensity, n. (10)

    SL 2.163 13 I will not meanly decline the immensity of good...
    Fdsp 2.197 17 I cannot deny it, O friend, that the vast shadow of the Phenomenal includes thee also in its pied and painted immensity...
    OS 2.270 23 All goes to show that the soul in man...is not the intellect or the will, but the master of the intellect and the will; is...an immensity not possessed and that cannot be possessed.
    Art1 2.356 8 From this succession of excellent objects [of art] we learn at last the immensity of the world...
    PC 8.225 11 ...time and space,-what are they? Our first problems...whose outrunning immensity, the old Greeks believed, astonished the gods themselves;...
    PC 8.225 17 ...the moral element in man counterpoises this dismaying immensity and bereaves it of terror.
    Imtl 8.349 2 ...the man puts off the ignorance and tumultuous passions of youth; proceeding thence puts off the egotism of manhood, and becomes at last a public and universal soul. He is...rising to realities; the outer relations and circumstances dying out, he entering deeper into God, God into him, until the last garment of egotism falls, and he is with God,-shares the will and the immensity of the First Cause.
    Chr2 10.122 6 ...[a well-principled man] feels the immensity of the chain whose last link he holds in his hand, and is led by it.
    SovE 10.194 23 Let [a man]...find...the height of lowliness, the immensity of to-day;...
    CL 12.151 18 Man...pumps the sap of all this forest through his arteries;... and the immensity of life seems to make the world deep and wide.

immerge, v. (1)

    MN 1.208 11 Hereto was [a man] born...to do an office which nature could not forego...and then immerge again into the holy silence and eternity...

immerse, v. (2)

    Nat 1.60 13 [The soul] respects the end too much to immerse itself in the means.
    Prd1 2.224 4 If a man...immerse himself in any trades or pleasures for their own sake, he may be a good wheel or pin, but he is not a cultivated man.

immersed, v. (10)

    AmS 1.96 14 The new deed...remains for a time immersed in our unconscious life.
    Int 2.326 15 He who is immersed in what concerns person or place cannot see the problem of existence.
    Art1 2.354 5 We are immersed in beauty...
    Exp 3.70 20 That which proceeds in succession might be remembered, but that which is coexistent, or ejaculated from a deeper cause, as yet far from being conscious, knows not its own tendency. So is it with us, now sceptical or without unity, because immersed in forms and effects all seeming to be of equal yet hostile value, and now religious, whilst in the reception of spiritual law.
    MoS 4.152 6 ...to the men of practical power, whilst immersed in it, the man of ideas appears out of his reason.
    NMW 4.229 6 To be sure there are men enough who are immersed in things...
    Bty 6.287 17 The ancients believed that a genius or demon took possession at birth of each mortal, to guide him; that these genii were sometimes seen as a flame of fire partly immersed in the bodies which they governed;...
    Suc 7.285 5 [Linnaeus] studied the insects that infested the timber, and found that they laid their eggs in the logs within certain days in April, and he directed that during ten days at that season the logs should be immersed under water in the docks;...
    Imtl 8.340 1 After we have found our depth [on a new planet], and assimilated what we could of the new experience, transfer us to a new scene. In each transfer we shall have acquired...a new mastery of the old thoughts, in which we were too much immersed.
    CL 12.138 7 ...[Linnaeus] directed that during ten days...the logs should be immersed under the water...

immersion, n. (1)

    MoS 4.181 6 Others there are to whom the heaven is brass, and it shuts down to the surface of the earth. It is a question of temperament, or of more or less immersion in nature.

immigrant, adj. (1)

    CbW 6.275 26 ...the evil [in our domestic service] increases from the ignorance and hostility of every ship-load of the immigrant population swarming into houses and farms.

immigrant, n. (1)

    Pol1 3.210 24 ...[the conservative party] does not...befriend the poor, or the Indian, or the immigrant.

immigrants, n. (2)

    ChiE 11.474 3 The immigrants from Asia come in crowds.
    CPL 11.495 6 That town is attractive to its native citizens and to immigrants which has a healthy site, good land, good roads...

immigration, n. (5)

    PC 8.207 17 Was ever such coincidence of advantages in time and place as in America to-day?...the hungry cry for men which goes up from the wide continent; the answering facility of immigration...
    HDC 11.55 2 The very great immigration from England made the lands [near Concord] more valuable every year...
    HDC 11.55 9 ...in 1640, all immigration [to Concord] ceased...
    EPro 11.322 9 Is it feared that taxes will check immigration?
    FRep 11.516 2 At every moment some one country more than any other represents the sentiment and the future of mankind. None will doubt that America occupies this place in the opinion of nations, as is proved by the fact of the vast immigration into this country...

immigrations, n. (1)

    PPh 4.47 6 [Philosophy's] early records...are of the immigrations from Asia...

imminent, adj. (1)

    ET5 5.91 15 Lord Elgin, at Athens, saw the imminent ruin of the Greek remains...

immobility, n. (2)

    Nat 1.76 3 The immobility or bruteness of nature is the absence of spirit;...
    Exp 3.56 22 That immobility and absence of elasticity which we find in the arts, we find with more pain in the artist.

immoderate, adj. (1)

    ET5 5.89 2 [The English] have no running for luck, and no immoderate speed.

immoderately, adv. (1)

    PPh 4.71 12 [Socrates] was a cool fellow, adding to his humor a perfect temper and a knowledge of his man...which laid the companion open to certain defeat in any debate,--and in debate he immoderately delighted.

immolate, v. (1)

    Chr1 3.98 5 What have I gained, that I no longer immolate a bull to Jove...

immolated, adj. (1)

    NMW 4.257 10 ...what was the result of [Napoleon's] vast talent and power, of these...immolated millions of men...

immolation, n. (2)

    SwM 4.144 21 ...in [Swedenborg's] immolation of genius and fame at the shrine of conscience, is a merit sublime beyond praise.
    ET14 5.250 9 ...where impatience of the tricks of men...builds altars to the negative Deity, the inevitable recoil is...the gallantry of the private heart, which decks its immolation with glory...

immoral, adj. (28)

    MoS 4.185 11 The appearance is immoral; the result is moral.
    GoW 4.278 23 We had an English romance here...in which the only reward of virtue is a seat in Parliament and a peerage. Goethe's romance [Wilhelm Meister] has a conclusion as lame and immoral.
    ET8 5.141 11 The [English] nation always resist the immoral action of their government.
    CbW 6.255 27 California gets peopled and subdued, civilized in this immoral way...
    PC 8.232 19 It has been our misfortune that the politics of America have been often immoral.
    PC 8.232 26 We have suffered our young men of ambition to play the game of politics and take the immoral side without loss of caste...
    Grts 8.316 11 We like the natural greatness of health and wild power. I confess that I am as much taken by it...sometimes...even in persons open to the suspicion of irregular and immoral living, in Bohemians,-as in more orderly examples.
    Chr2 10.92 18 He is immoral who is acting to any private end.
    Chr2 10.114 3 The Church...clings to the miraculous, in the vulgar sense, which has even an immoral tendency...
    EWI 11.108 25 The facts [of the slave trade] confirmed [Thomas Clarkson' s] sentiment, that Providence had never made that to be wise which was immoral...
    FSLC 11.186 20 An immoral law makes it a man's duty to break it...
    FSLC 11.186 24 ...virtue is the very self of every man. It is therefore a principle of law that an immoral contract is void, and that an immoral statute is void.
    FSLC 11.187 4 It is remarkable how rare in the history of tyrants is an immoral law.
    FSLC 11.187 11 ...that is the head and body of this discontent, that [the Fugitive Slave] law is immoral.
    FSLC 11.190 11 I had often heard...that it was a principle in law that immoral laws are void.
    FSLC 11.195 4 ...the language of all permanent laws will be in contradiction to any immoral enactment.
    FSLC 11.196 24 I wonder that our acute people...should not find out that an immoral law costs more than the loss of the custom of a Southern city.
    FSLC 11.206 15 ...as soon as the constitution ordains an immoral law, it ordains disunion.
    FSLC 11.206 17 The Union is at an end as soon as an immoral law is enacted.
    FSLN 11.226 25 [Webster's 7th of March Speech] was like the doleful speech falsely ascribed to the patriot Brutus: Virtue, I have followed thee through life, and I find thee but a shadow. Here was a question of an immoral law;...
    FSLN 11.227 1 [Webster's 7th of March Speech] was like the doleful speech falsely ascribed to the patriot Brutus: Virtue, I have followed thee through life, and I find thee but a shadow. Here was a question of an immoral law; a question agitated for ages, and settled always in the same way by every great jurist, that an immoral law cannot be valid.
    FSLN 11.228 9 [Webster] did as immoral men usually do, made very low bows to the Christian Church...
    FSLN 11.241 18 We should not forgive the clergy for taking on every issue the immoral side;...
    AKan 11.261 4 In the free states, we give a snivelling support to slavery. The judges give cowardly interpretations to the law, in direct opposition to the known foundation of all law, that every immoral statute is void.
    TPar 11.289 27 ...[Theodore Parker] insisted...that the essence of Christianity is its practical morals;...and if you combine it...with ordinary city ambitions to gloze over...immoral politics...it is a hypocrisy...
    ALin 11.337 22 There is a serene Providence which rules the fate of nations, which...crushes everything immoral as inhuman...
    HCom 11.342 13 The war gave back integrity to this erring and immoral nation.
    FRep 11.522 24 When we are most disturbed by [the American people's] rash and immoral voting, it is not malignity, but recklessness.

immorality, n. (3)

    LLNE 10.338 26 Every immorality is a departure from nature...
    FSLC 11.185 26 It is the law of the world,-as much immorality as there is, so much misery.
    FSLC 11.186 4 In every nation all the immorality that exists breeds plagues.

immortal, adj. (56)

    Nat 1.10 15 I am the lover of uncontained and immortal beauty.
    Nat 1.47 3 Thus is the unspeakable but intelligible and practicable meaning of the world conveyed to man, the immortal pupil, in every object of sense.
    Nat 1.56 16 [Intellectual science] fastens the attention upon immortal necessary uncreated natures...
    Nat 1.57 20 We become immortal, for we learn that time and space are relations of matter;...
    AmS 1.87 25 [Nature] came to [the scholar] short-lived actions; it went out from him immortal thoughts.
    DSA 1.151 12 The Hebrew and Greek Scriptures contain immortal sentences...
    LE 1.162 1 ...the immortal bards of philosophy,-that which they have written out...makes me bold.
    LE 1.182 3 Let [the scholar]...serve the world as a true and noble man; never forgetting to worship the immortal divinities who whisper to the poet...
    MN 1.216 27 From the poisonous tree, the world, say the Brahmins, two species of fruit are produced, sweet as the waters of life; Love...and Poetry, whose taste is like the immortal juice of Vishnu.
    LT 1.288 26 ...we do not know that...only as much as the law enters us, becomes us, are we living men,-immortal with the immortality of this law.
    Hist 2.9 14 Who cares what the fact was, when we have made a constellation of it to hang in heaven an immortal sign?
    SR 2.50 8 He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness...
    SR 2.80 19 ...the immortal light...will beam over the universe...
    Comp 2.107 1 Aurora forgot to ask youth for her lover, and though Tithonus is immortal, he is old.
    Comp 2.107 4 Siegfried, in the Nibelungen, is not quite immortal...
    SL 2.138 2 ...the perception of the inexhaustibleness of nature is an immortal youth.
    Lov1 2.171 24 With thought, with the ideal, is immortal hilarity...
    OS 2.296 27 [The soul saith] More and more the surges of everlasting nature enter into me, and I become public and human in my regards and actions. So come I to live in thoughts and act with energies which are immortal.
    Int 2.327 11 ...any record of our fancies or reflections, disentangled from the web of our unconsciousness, becomes an object impersonal and immortal.
    Pt1 3.23 23 The songs, thus flying immortal from their mortal parent, are pursued by clamorous flights of censures...
    Pt1 3.39 24 Once having tasted this immortal ichor, [the poet] cannot have enough of it...
    Nat2 3.170 21 Here [in the woods] no history, or church, or state, is interpolated on the divine sky and the immortal year.
    Pol1 3.213 23 All forms of government symbolize an immortal government...
    UGM 4.22 11 ...if there should appear in the company some gentle soul who...apprises me of my independence on any conditions of country, or time, or human body,--that man liberates me;... ... I am made immortal by apprehending my possession of incorruptible goods.
    PPh 4.75 15 It was a rare fortune that this Aesop of the mob [Socrates] and this robed scholar [Plato] should meet, to make each other immortal in their mutual faculty.
    MoS 4.164 2 Other coincidences...concurred to make this old Gascon [Montaigne] still new and immortal for me.
    ShP 4.206 21 The recitation [of Shakespeare] begins; one golden word leaps out immortal from all this painted pedantry and sweetly torments us with invitations to its own inaccessible homes.
    ET18 5.308 9 ...if the ocean out of which it emerged should wash it away, [England] will be remembered as an island famous for immortal laws...
    F 6.26 5 A man speaking from insight affirms of himself what is true of the mind: seeing its immortality, he says, I am immortal;...
    Wsp 6.230 25 He only is rightly immortal to whom all things are immortal.
    Bty 6.289 23 In the true mythology Love is an immortal child...
    Bty 6.299 15 A beautiful person among the Greeks was thought to betray by this sign some secret favor of the immortal gods;...
    Elo1 7.99 12 [Eloquence] may well stand as the exponent of all that is grand and immortal in the mind.
    Suc 7.307 19 What is this immortal demand for more, which belongs to our constitution?...
    Res 8.151 15 Natural history is, in the country...at once elegant, immortal...
    Imtl 8.326 1 [The Greek]...built his beautiful tombs at Pompeii. The poet Shelley says of these delicately carved white marble cells, They seem not so much hiding places of that which must decay, as voluptuous chambers for immortal spirits.
    Imtl 8.330 12 Hear the opinion of Montesquieu: ... I delight in believing myself as immortal as God himself.
    Imtl 8.340 22 Lord Bacon said: Some of the philosophers...came to this point, that whatsoever motions the spirit of man could act and perform without the organs of the body, might remain after death; which were only those of the understanding, and not of the affections; so immortal and incorruptible a thing did knowledge seem to them to be.
    Imtl 8.343 6 We have our indemnity only in the moral and intellectual reality to which we aspire. That is immortal, and we only through that.
    Imtl 8.347 25 A great integrity makes us immortal...
    Aris 10.34 7 ...I take this inextinguishable persuasion in men's minds [of hereditary transmission of qualities] as a hint from the outward universe to man to inlay as many virtues and superiorities as he can into this swift fresco of the day, which is hardening to an immortal picture.
    PerF 10.69 18 Art is long, and life short, and [a man] must supply this disproportion by borrowing and applying to his task the energies of Nature. Reinforce his self-respect, show him...his arsenal of forces, physical, metaphysical, immortal.
    PerF 10.78 17 ...not less [than Memory, Fancy, Imagination, Eloquence], method, patience, self-trust, perseverance, love, desire of knowledge, the passion for truth. These are the angels that take us by the hand, these our immortal, invulnerable guardians.
    PerF 10.85 26 [This world] is a fagot of laws, and a true analysis of these laws, showing how immortal and how self-protecting they are, would be a wholesome lesson for every time and for this time.
    Chr2 10.108 10 ...the [religious] change is in what is superficial; the principles are immortal...
    MMEm 10.411 23 How insipid is fiction to a mind touched with immortal views!
    Thor 10.483 7 Immortal water, alive even to the superficies.
    LVB 11.94 5 ...[the question of currency and trade] is the chirping of grasshoppers beside the immortal question whether justice shall be done by the race of civilized to the race of savage man...
    SMC 11.348 20 ...manhood is the one immortal thing/ Beneath Time's changeful sky/...
    PLT 12.51 19 Nature is immortal, and can wait.
    II 12.80 8 It is the exhortation of Zoroaster, Let the depth, the immortal depth of your soul lead you.
    II 12.87 18 If immortality, in the sense in which you seek it, is best, you shall be immortal.
    Mem 12.103 14 The poor short lone fact dies at the birth. Memory catches it up into her heaven, and bathes it in immortal waters.
    CL 12.145 25 [The pear] is hardy, and almost immortal.
    Bost 12.194 9 Who can read the fiery ejaculations of Saint Augustine...of Milton, of Bunyan even...without contrasting their immortal heat with the cold complexion of our recent wits?
    WSL 12.341 19 When we pronounce the names of...Ben Jonson and Isaak Walton; Dryden and Pope,-we...enter into a region of the purest pleasure accessible to human nature. We have...entered that crystal sphere in which everything in the world of matter reappears, but transfigured and immortal.

immortal, n. (1)

    Nat 1.71 6 When men are innocent, life...shall pass into the immortal as gently as we awake from dreams.

immortalities, n. (1)

    Wom 11.412 25 ...who suspects, in [love's] blushes and tremors, what tragedies, heroisms and immortalities are beyond it?

immortality, n. (65)

    DSA 1.122 17 ...the safety of God, the immortality of God, the majesty of God, do enter into that man with justice.
    LT 1.288 27 ...we do not know that...only as much as the law enters us, becomes us, are we living men,-immortal with the immortality of this law.
    Fdsp 2.196 5 Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
    OS 2.283 15 Men ask concerning the immortality of the soul...
    OS 2.284 2 It was left to [Christ's] disciples...to teach the immortality of the soul as a doctrine...
    OS 2.284 5 The moment the doctrine of the immortality [of the soul] is separately taught, man is already fallen.
    Int 2.332 14 The immortality of man is as legitimately preached from the intellections as from the moral volitions.
    Pt1 3.31 25 ...when Aesop reports the whole catalogue of common daily relations through the masquerade of birds and beasts;--we take the cheerful hint of the immortality of our essence and its versatile habit and escapes...
    Pt1 3.34 4 ...all books of the imagination endure, all which ascend to that truth that the writer sees nature beneath him, and uses it as his exponent. Every verse or sentence possessing this virtue will take care of its own immortality.
    Exp 3.74 5 ...in accepting the leading of the sentiments, it is not what we believe concerning the immortality of the soul or the like, but the universal impulse to believe, that is the material circumstance...
    Nat2 3.180 14 It is a long way from granite to the oyster; farther yet to Plato and the preaching of the immortality of the soul.
    Nat2 3.196 5 ...the knowledge that we traverse the whole scale of being... and have some stake in every possibility, lends that sublime lustre to death, which philosophy and religion have too outwardly and literally striven to express in the popular doctrine of the immortality of the soul.
    PPh 4.74 17 When accused before the judges of subverting the popular creed, [Socrates] affirms the immortality of the soul...
    PNR 4.81 17 Plato's fame does not stand...on any thesis, as for example the immortality of the soul.
    MoS 4.156 16 [The skeptic says] If there is a wish for immortality, and no evidence, why not say just that?
    MoS 4.182 12 Even the doctrines dear to the hope of man, of the divine Providence and of the immortality of the soul, [the spiritualist's] neighbors can not put the statement so that he shall affirm it.
    NMW 4.254 12 [Napoleon's] star, his love of glory, his doctrine of the immortality of the soul, are all French.
    NMW 4.254 20 [Napoleon's] doctrine of immortality is simply fame.
    ET1 5.18 6 We [Emerson and Carlyle] went out to walk over long hills, and looked at Criffel...and down into Wordsworth's country. There we sat down and talked of the immortality of the soul.
    ET13 5.220 5 These [English] minsters were neither built nor filled by atheists. No church has had more learned, industrious or devoted men; plenty of clerks and bishops, who, out of their gowns, would turn their backs on no man. Their architecture still glows with faith in immortality.
    ET16 5.280 3 The Acta Sanctorum show plainly that the men of those times believed in God and in the immortality of the soul...
    F 6.26 4 A man speaking from insight affirms of himself what is true of the mind: seeing its immortality, he says, I am immortal;...
    Wsp 6.238 27 Of immortality, the soul when well employed is incurious.
    Wsp 6.239 12 Immortality will come to such as are fit for it...
    Bty 6.294 5 ...this demand in our thought for an ever onward action is the argument for the immortality.
    Bty 6.304 19 Chaff and dust...are clothed about with immortality.
    Elo1 7.97 13 There is a principle of resurrection in [the man who will train himself to mastery in this science of persuasion], an immortality of purpose.
    Boks 7.190 26 We owe to books those general benefits which come from high intellectual action. Thus...we often owe to them the perception of immortality.
    OA 7.320 14 The vast inconvenience of animal immortality was told in the fable of Tithonus.
    OA 7.336 3 I have heard that whenever the name of man is spoken, the doctrine of immortality is announced;...
    Res 8.153 6 When I see in these brave plants [the willows] this vigor and immortality in weakness, I find a sudden relief and pleasure in observing the mighty law of vegetation...
    Insp 8.272 23 ...not the immortality of the private soul is incredible, after we have experienced an insight...
    Imtl 8.324 8 ...The Egyptians are the first of mankind who have affirmed the immortality of the soul.
    Imtl 8.330 3 Plutarch, in Greece, has a deep faith that the doctrine of the Divine Providence and that of the immortality of the soul rest on one and the same basis.
    Imtl 8.330 6 Hear the opinion of Montesquieu: If the immortality of the soul were an error, I should be sorry not to believe it.
    Imtl 8.330 10 Hear the opinion of Montesquieu: ... I do not wish to exchange the idea of immortality against that of the beatitude of one day.
    Imtl 8.331 22 [One of the men] said that when he entered the Senate he became in a short time intimate with one of his colleagues, and...they daily... spent much time in conversation on the immortality of the soul...
    Imtl 8.340 16 Lord Bacon said: Some of the philosophers who were least divine denied generally the immortality of the soul...
    Imtl 8.341 2 It is my greatest desire, [Van Helmont] said, that it might be granted unto atheists to have tasted, at least but one only moment, what it is intellectually to understand; whereby they may feel the immortality of the mind, as it were by touching.
    Imtl 8.344 6 Goethe said: It is to a thinking being quite impossible to think himself non-existent, ceasing to think and live; so far does every one carry in himself the proof of immortality...
    Imtl 8.345 13 ...it is not my duty to prove to myself the immortality of the soul.
    Imtl 8.345 21 ...one abstains from writing or printing on the immortality of the soul, because, when he comes to the end of his statement, the hungry eyes that run through it will close disappointed;...
    Imtl 8.346 3 I mean that I am a better believer, and all serious souls are better believers in the immortality, than we can give grounds for.
    Imtl 8.347 9 Is immortality only an intellectual quality...
    Imtl 8.348 2 It is strange that Jesus is esteemed by mankind the bringer of the doctrine of immortality.
    Imtl 8.348 5 ...[Jesus] never preaches the personal immortality;...
    Imtl 8.348 9 How ill agrees this majestical immortality of our religion with the frivolous population!
    Imtl 8.349 4 It is curious to find the selfsame feeling, that it is not immortality, but eternity...appearing in the farthest east and west.
    Chr2 10.101 7 In [the man of profound moral sentiment's] presence, or within his influence, every one believes in the immortality of the soul.
    SovE 10.198 16 From the obscurity and casualty of those which I know, I infer the obscurity and casualty of the like balm and consolation and immortality in a thousand homes which I do not know...
    Schr 10.264 15 [The scholar] is...here to be sobered...by the depth of his draughts of the cup of immortality.
    Plu 10.313 14 [Plutarch's] faith in the immortality of the soul is another measure of his deep humanity.
    Plu 10.313 22 [Plutarch] believes that the doctrine of the Divine Providence, and that of the immortality of the soul, rest on one and the same basis.
    Plu 10.314 12 I can easily believe that an anxious soul may find in Plutarch' s...Letter to his Wife Timoxena, a more sweet and reassuring argument on the immortality than in the Phaedo of Plato;...
    HDC 11.86 19 ...I believe this town [Concord] to have been the dwelling-place... of pious and excellent persons...who served God, and loved man, and never let go the hope of immortality.
    JBB 11.269 22 ...if [John Brown] must suffer, he must drag official gentlemen into an immortality most undesirable...
    TPar 11.288 5 'T is plain to me that [Theodore Parker] has achieved a historic immortality here;...
    SHC 11.436 10 I have heard that when we pronounce the name of man, we pronounce the belief of immortality.
    SHC 11.436 22 Our dissatisfaction with any other solution is the blazing evidence of immortality.
    II 12.66 24 I know, of course, all the grounds on which any man affirms the immortality of the Soul.
    II 12.85 21 In persistency, [man] knows the strength of Nature, and the immortality of man to lie.
    II 12.87 16 Do not truck for your private immortality.
    II 12.87 16 If immortality, in the sense in which you seek it, is best, you shall be immortal.
    CW 12.178 1 ...no pursuit has more breath of immortality in it [than that of the naturalist]..
    WSL 12.348 24 Many of [Landor's sentences] will secure their own immortality in English literature;...

Immortality, n. (1)

    Hist 2.40 7 What light does [history] shed on those mysteries which we hide under the names Death and Immortality?

Immortality, Ode on... [Wm. (2)

    ET17 5.298 7 The Ode on Immortality is the high-water mark which the intellect has reached in this age.
    Imtl 8.346 6 ...Wordsworth's Ode is the best modern essay on the subject [of immortality].

Immortality, Ode on...[Wm. (1)

    Boks 7.218 4 ...in our time the Ode of Wordsworth, and the poems and the prose of Goethe, have this enlargement [the imaginative element]...

immortalize, v. (1)

    ET9 5.144 14 There is no freak so ridiculous but some Englishman has attempted to immortalize by money and law.

immortalizing, adj. (1)

    EWI 11.135 26 The lives of the advocates [of emancipation in the West Indies] are pages of greatness, and the connection of the eminent senators with this question constitutes the immortalizing moments of those men's lives.

immortally, adv. (1)

    ET4 5.48 13 ...whilst race works immortally to keep its own, it is resisted by other forces.

immortals, n. (1)

    Insp 8.283 23 To the persevering mortal the blessed immortals are swift.

Immortals, n. (1)

    SR 2.79 2 To the persevering mortal, said Zoroaster, the blessed Immortals are swift.

immovability, n. (1)

    ChiE 11.471 21 ...in [China's] immovability this race has claims.

immovable, adj. (17)

    MR 1.255 21 He who would help himself and others should...be...a continent, persisting, immovable person...
    LT 1.259 9 ...there is a great reason for the existence of every extant fact; a reason which lies grand and immovable...behind it in silence.
    Pt1 3.30 19 ...the metamorphosis once seen, we divine that it does not stop. I will not now consider how much this makes the charm of algebra and the mathematics, which also have their tropes, but it is felt in every definition; as when Aristotle defines space to be an immovable vessel in which things are contained;...
    NER 3.272 25 In the circle of the rankest tories...let...a man of great heart and mind act on them, and very quickly...these immovable statues will begin to spin and revolve.
    UGM 4.18 27 ...[a wise man] would establish [in our village] a sense of immovable equality...
    PPh 4.52 11 The country...of immovable institutions...is Asia;...
    ET14 5.250 22 If [James Wilkinson's] mind does not rest in immovable biases, perhaps the orbit is larger and the return is not yet...
    F 6.3 20 In our first steps to gain our wishes we come upon immovable limitations.
    CbW 6.254 17 Wars, fires, plagues, break up immovable routine...
    Farm 7.145 6 All things are flowing, even those that seem immovable.
    PC 8.230 26 Around that immovable persistency of yours, statesmen, legislatures, must revolve...
    Edc1 10.155 24 ...as [the naturalist] is still immovable, [the creatures of nature]...resume their haunts and their ordinary labors and manners...
    Thor 10.469 9 [Thoreau] knew how to sit immovable...
    GSt 10.505 17 When one remembers...his immovable convictions,-I think this single will [George Stearns] was worth to the cause ten thousand ordinary partisans...
    War 11.173 19 ...another age comes...and a man puts himself under the dominion of principles. I see him to be...immovable in the waves of the crowd.
    ACiv 11.303 16 ...there have been days in American history, when, if the free states had done their duty, slavery had been blocked by an immoveable barrier...
    MAng1 12.236 7 When the Pope...sent [Michelangelo] one hundred crowns of gold, as one month's wages, Michael sent them back. The Pope was angry, but the artist was immovable.

immovableness, n. (2)

    DSA 1.149 10 There are...men to whom a crisis...demanding... immovableness...comes graceful and beloved as a bride.
    SL 2.134 24 That which externally seemed will and immovableness was willingness and self-annihilation.

immovably, adv. (4)

    Cir 2.303 18 Nature...has a cause like all the rest; and when once I comprehend that, will these fields stretch so immovably wide...
    CbW 6.277 18 The hero is he who is immovably centred.
    PI 8.71 1 The poet is rare because he must be exquisitely vital and sympathetic, and, at the same time, immovably centred.
    Comc 8.167 3 A classification or nomenclature used by the scholar... becomes through indolence a barrack and a prison, in which the man sits down immovably...

immunities, n. (4)

    HDC 11.42 16 ...this first recorded political act of our fathers, this tax assessed on its inhabitants by a town, is the most important event in their civil history, implying...the exercise of a sovereign power, and connected with all the immunities and powers of a corporate town in Massachusetts.
    HDC 11.44 4 [The colonists'] wants, their poverty, their manifest convenience made them bold to ask of the Governor and of the General Court, immunities...
    EWI 11.118 4 We sometimes say, the planter...only wants the immunities and luxuries which the slaves yield him;...
    EWI 11.131 13 ...the fourth article of the Constitution of the United States ordains in terms, that, The citizens of each State shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of citizens in the several States.

immunity, n. (4)

    Comp 2.99 19 ...do men desire the more substantial and permanent grandeur of genius? Neither has this an immunity.
    Bhr 6.187 1 A person of strong mind comes to perceive that for him an immunity is secured so long as he renders to society that service which is native and proper to him...
    Bhr 6.187 3 A person of strong mind comes to perceive that for him an immunity is secured so long as he renders to society that service which is native and proper to him,--an immunity from all the observances...which society so tyrannically imposes on the rank and file of its members.
    Comc 8.163 11 [Wit] is like ice, on which no beauty of form, no majesty of carriage can plead any immunity...

immured, v. (2)

    Clbs 7.223 2 Yet Saadi loved the race of men,--/ No churl, immured in cave or den;/...
    PPo 8.255 11 My phoenix long ago secured/ His nest in the sky-vault's cope;/ In the body's cage immured,/ He was weary of life's hope./

immutable, adj. (5)

    Lov1 2.188 18 ...in health the mind is presently seen again,--its overarching vault, bright with galaxies of immutable lights...
    Chr1 3.94 23 Is an iron handcuff so immutable a bond?
    ET1 5.7 19 ...[Landor]...is well content to impress, if possible, his English whim upon the immutable past.
    Prch 10.237 22 ...when we...come into the house of thought and worship, we come with the purpose...to see that life...is...a growth after immutable laws under beneficent influences the most immense.
    Schr 10.287 3 ...the great Necessity is [the scholar's] patron, who distributes sun and shade after immutable laws.

immutableness, n. (1)

    OS 2.283 21 To truth, justice, love...the idea of immutableness is essentially associated.

immutably, adv. (2)

    Pt1 3.36 19 ...instantly the mind inquires whether these fishes under the bridge, yonder oxen in the pasture, those dogs in the yard, are immutably fishes, oxen and dogs, or only so appear to me...
    II 12.88 20 ...there is a religion which survives immutably all persons and fashions...

Imogen [Shakespeare, Cymbel (1)

    ET6 5.108 20 The sentiment of Imogen in Cymbeline is copied from English nature;...

imp, n. (1)

    GoW 4.276 17 ...[Goethe] flies at the throat of this imp [the Devil].

impair, v. (6)

    DSA 1.148 13 ...let us study the grand strokes of rectitude:...an independence of friends, so that not the unjust wishes of those who love us shall impair our freedom...
    SR 2.85 16 [Man's] note-books impair his memory;...
    MoS 4.151 7 Picture, statue, temple, railroad, steam-engine, existed first in an artist's mind, without flaw, mistake, or friction, which impair the executed models.
    MoS 4.158 24 ...culture will instantly impair that chiefest beauty of spontaneousness.
    ET5 5.80 4 [The English] are jealous of minds that have much facility of association, from an instinctive fear that the seeing many relations to their thought might impair this serial continuity and lucrative concentration.
    PI 8.21 20 A thought...pressed, followed, opened, dwarfs...all but itself. But this second sight does not necessarily impair the primary or common sense.

impaired, v. (1)

    F 6.12 14 ...in the second generation, if the like genius appear, the health is visibly deteriorated and the generative force impaired.

impairs, v. (2)

    MoS 4.158 20 ...it is alleged that labor impairs the form and breaks the spirit of man...
    FRO2 11.488 12 This claim [of miraculour dispensation] impairs, to my mind, the soundness of him who makes it...

impalpable, adj. (1)

    Tran 1.331 20 ...how easy it is to show [the materialist]...that he need only ask a question or two beyond his daily questions to find his solid universe growing dim and impalpable before his sense.

imparadises, v. (1)

    DSA 1.136 20 Where now sounds the persuasion, that...imparadises my heart...

imparo, v. (1)

    MAng1 12.221 2 ...one of the last drawings in [Michelangelo's] portfolio is a sublime hint of his own feeling; for it is a sketch of an old man with a long beard, in a go-cart, with an hour-glass before him; and the motto, Ancora imparo, I still learn.

impart, v. (41)

    AmS 1.99 11 Does [the great soul] lack organ or medium to impart his truths?
    AmS 1.102 7 Whatsoever oracles the human heart...has uttered...these [the scholar] shall receive and impart.
    DSA 1.134 15 ...it is the effect of conversation with the beauty of the soul, to beget a desire and need to impart to others the same knowledge and love.
    SL 2.154 1 Life alone can impart life;...
    Pt1 3.6 18 The poet is...the man...who...is representative of man, in virtue of being the largest power to receive and to impart.
    Pt1 3.33 25 [The poet] unlocks our chains and admits us to a new scene. This emancipation is dear to all men, and the power to impart it...is a measure of intellect.
    Exp 3.46 1 We have enough [spirit] to live and bring the year about, but not an ounce to impart or to invest.
    Chr1 3.90 3 [Character] is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force... by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart;...
    Nat2 3.167 3 Though baffled seers cannot impart/ The secret of [world's] laboring heart,/ Throb thine with Nature's throbbing breast,/ And all is clear from east to west./
    NER 3.278 11 We are haunted with a belief that you [reformers] have a secret which it would highliest advantage us to learn, and we would force you to impart it to us...
    UGM 4.28 13 There is such good will to impart, and such good will to receive, that each threatens to become the other;...
    PPh 4.67 10 Judge whether it is not safer to be instructed by some one of those who have power over the benefit which they impart to men [said Socrates], than by me, who benefit or not, just as it may happen.
    ET12 5.210 5 Such knowledge as they prize [at Oxford] they possess and impart.
    Bhr 6.186 24 The hero...should impart comfort by his own security and good nature to all beholders.
    Ill 6.311 26 Health and appetite impart the sweetness to sugar, bread and meat.
    Boks 7.190 26 [Books] impart sympathetic activity to the moral power.
    Clbs 7.232 22 Some men love only to talk where they are masters. ... They go rarely to thei their equals, and then as for their own convenience simply, making too much haste to introduce and impart their new whim or discovery;...
    Clbs 7.248 4 ...to a club met for conversation a supper is a good basis, as it...puts pedantry and business to the door. ...experienced men...sooner or later, impart all that is singular in their experience.
    PI 8.64 19 Bring us...poetry...that shall...mould itself into religions and mythologies, and impart its quality to centuries;...
    PI 8.67 9 If [the readers of a good poem] build ships, they write Ariel or Prospero or Ophelia on the ship's stern, and impart a tenderness and mystery to matters of fact.
    PC 8.229 8 Men say, Ah! if a man could impart his talent, instead of his performance, what mountains of guineas would be paid!
    PC 8.229 11 Men say, Ah! if a man could impart his talent, instead of his performance, what mountains of guineas would be paid! Yes, but in the measure of his absolute veracity he does impart it.
    PPo 8.248 23 [Hafiz] tells his mistress that...her glances can impart to him the fire and virtue needful for such self-denial [of the ascetic and the saint].
    Insp 8.286 26 ...eminently thoughtful men...have insisted on an hour of solitude every day, to meet their own mind and learn what oracle it has to impart.
    Insp 8.293 8 ...a writer must find an audience up to his thought, or he will no longer care to impart it...
    Chr2 10.101 24 ...to every serious mind Providence sends from time to time five or six or seven teachers who are of first importance to him in the lessons they have to impart.
    Chr2 10.103 12 ...the acts which [the moral sentiment] suggests-as when it impels a man to go forth and impart it to other men...are the homage we render to this sentiment...
    Edc1 10.148 21 The child is as hot to learn as the mother is to impart.
    Edc1 10.149 9 Nature provided for the communication of thought, by planting with it in the receiving mind a fury to impart it.
    Schr 10.289 2 If one man could impart his faith to another...you [scholars] should see the breadth of your realm;...
    PLT 12.47 16 One meets contemplative men who dwell in a certain feeling and delight which are intellectual but wholly above their expression. They cannot formulate. They impress those who know them by their loyalty to the truth they worship but cannot impart.
    PLT 12.63 9 ...[identification of the Ego with the universe's] communication from one to another...refuses our intrusion. It is in one, it belongs to all; yet how to impart it?
    II 12.68 25 We attributed power and science and good will to the Instinct, but we found it dumb and inexorable. If it would but impart itself!
    II 12.75 9 [The inner mind] is one, it belongs to all: yet how to impart it?
    II 12.79 27 ...the secret Power will not impart himself to us for tea-table talk;...
    CL 12.166 14 I know that the imagination...does not impart its secret to inquisitive persons.
    MAng1 12.216 17 Beauty...comprehending grandeur as a part, and reaching to goodness as its soul,-this to receive and this to impart, was [Michelangelo's] genius.
    PPr 12.388 12 If the good heaven have any good word to impart to this unworthy generation, here is one scribe [Carlyle] qualified and clothed for its occasion.

imparted, v. (10)

    Nat 1.55 20 It is, in both cases [Plato and Sophocles], that a spiritual life has been imparted to nature;...
    SR 2.47 4 [The divine idea] may be safely trusted as proportionate and of good issues, so it be faithfully imparted...
    NR 3.238 7 ...our economical mother...gathering up into some man every property in the universe, establishes thousand-fold occult mutual attractions among her offspring, that all this wash and waste of power may be imparted and exchanged.
    Bty 6.285 7 Why should not priests, lodged and fed comfortably in the temples, also amuse themselves [said Tisso]? Returning home, he imparted this reflection to the king.
    Cour 7.274 3 As long as [the religious sentiment] is cowardly insinuated... it is not imparted...
    PC 8.226 11 The benefactors we have indicated were...great because exceptional. The question which the present age urges...is whether the high qualities which distinguished them can be imparted.
    PC 8.226 13 Knowledge exists to be imparted.
    PPo 8.256 23 Accept whatever befalls; uncover thy brow from thy locks;/ Never to me nor to thee was option imparted;/...
    ALin 11.331 9 The profound good opinion which the people of Illinois and of the West had conceived of [Lincoln], and which they had imparted to their colleagues...was not rash...
    CInt 12.124 7 Here [in a good teacher] is sympathy; here is an order that corresponds to that in [a young man's] own mind, and in all sound minds, and the hope and impulse imparted.

impartial, adj. (2)

    Elo1 7.85 21 In a court of justice the audience are impartial;...
    Comc 8.166 23 ...[the saints] maturely having weighed/ They had no more but [the cobbler] o' th' trade/ (A man that served them in the double/ Capacity to teach and cobble),/ Resolved to spare him; yet to do/ The Indian Hoghan Moghan too/ Impartial justice, in his stead did/ Hang an old weaver that was bedrid./

impartiality, n. (1)

    ACri 12.294 9 ...[Shakespeare's] impartiality is like a sunbeam.

imparting, n. (1)

    MR 1.254 4 Let us begin by habitual imparting.

imparting, v. (12)

    MN 1.210 19 ...this lust of imparting as from us...is finite, comes of a lower strain.
    SR 2.78 15 We come to them who weep foolishly and sit down and cry for company, instead of imparting to them truth and health...
    Art1 2.360 8 ...through his necessity of imparting himself the adamant will be wax in [the artist's] hands...
    UGM 4.31 8 We are equally served by receiving and by imparting.
    ET1 5.5 26 [Greenough] believed that the Greeks had wrought in schools or fraternities,--the genius of the master imparting his design to his friends...
    Clbs 7.227 23 ...in higher activity of mind, every new perception is attended with a thrill of pleasure, and the imparting of it to others is also attended with pleasure.
    Chr2 10.100 5 ...the Deity does not break his firm laws in respect to imparting truth, more than in imparting material heat and light.
    Chr2 10.100 6 ...the Deity does not break his firm laws in respect to imparting truth, more than in imparting material heat and light.
    Supl 10.178 27 ...Nature...makes these two tendencies [of the East and the West] necessary each to the other, and delights to reinforce each peculiarity by imparting the other.
    SovE 10.199 24 The one miracle which God works evermore is in Nature, and imparting himself to the mind.
    MoL 10.250 20 ...what does the scholar represent? The organ of ideas... imparting pulses of light and shocks of electricity, guidance and courage.
    CInt 12.116 10 If the colleges...really...had the power of imparting valuable thought...we should all rush to their gates;...

imparts, v. (7)

    YA 1.391 3 ...the wise and just man will always feel...that he imparts strength to the State...
    ShP 4.217 11 [Shakespeare]...never took the step which seemed inevitable to such genius, namely to explore the virtue which resides in these [natural] symbols and imparts this power:--what is that which they themselves say?
    PI 8.37 21 The gladness [the poet] imparts he shares.
    PC 8.211 25 ...a new and healthful air regenerates the human mind, and imparts a sympathetic enlargement to its inventions and method.
    Chr2 10.99 6 The Divine Mind imparts itself to the single person...
    Chr2 10.99 22 The Divine Mind imparts itself to the single person...
    Shak1 11.448 15 What shocks of surprise and sympathetic power, this battery, which [Shakespeare] is, imparts to every fine mind that is born!

impassable, adj. (9)

    Mrs1 3.130 7 ...come from year to year and see how permanent [the distinction of caste or fashion] is, in this Boston or New York life of man, where too it has not the least countenance from the law of the land. Not in Egypt or in India a firmer or more impassable line.
    NR 3.243 14 ...nothing is impassable to the soul...
    NMW 4.228 17 It is an advantage, within certain limits, to have renounced the dominion of the sentiments of piety, gratitude and generosity; since what was an impassable bar to us, and still is to others, becomes a convenient weapon for our purposes;...
    F 6.21 17 The limitation [of Fate] is impassable by any insight of man.
    SS 7.8 24 ...the dearest friends are separated by impassable gulfs.
    SA 8.81 14 In the most delicate natures, fine temperament and culture build this impassable wall [of manners].
    Aris 10.33 2 The Golden Book of Venice...the hierarchy of India with its impassable degrees, is each a transcript of the decigrade or centigraded Man.
    JBS 11.279 27 ...[John Brown] learned to drive his flock through thickets all but impassable;...
    Trag 12.414 8 If any perversity or profligacy break out in society, [the man who is centred] will join with others to avert the mischief, but it will not arouse resentment or fear, because he discerns its impassable limits.

impassably, adv. (1)

    EPro 11.323 26 The [Civil] war...brought with it the immense benefit of drawing a line and rallying the free states to fix it impassably...

impassibility, n. (1)

    Plu 10.312 14 [Seneca] was Buddhist in his cold abstract virtue, with a certain impassibility beyond humanity.

impassioned, adj. (3)

    LE 1.166 8 A man of cultivated mind but reserved habits, sitting silent, admires the miracle of...impassioned...speech, in the man addressing an assembly;...
    Milt1 12.249 8 ...peremptory and impassioned, [Milton] demands, on the instant, an ideal justice.
    Trag 12.413 9 We must walk as guests in Nature; not impassioned, but cool and disengaged.

impatience, n. (31)

    LT 1.285 23 The revolutions that impend over society are not now...from impatience of one or another form of government...
    Con 1.314 7 Under the richest robes...the strong heart will beat...with impatience of accidental distinctions...
    YA 1.375 18 Fathers...behold with impatience a new character and way of thinking presuming to show itself in their own son or daughter.
    YA 1.380 22 These [Communities] proceeded...from an impatience of many usages in common life...
    Fdsp 2.200 13 Our impatience is thus sharply rebuked.
    Fdsp 2.211 11 Respect so far the holy laws of this fellowship [of friends] as not to prejudice its perfect flower by your impatience for its opening.
    Fdsp 2.213 15 Our impatience betrays us into rash and foolish alliances...
    NER 3.252 2 The spirit of protest and of detachment drove the members of these [Sabbath and Bible] Conventions to bear testimony against the Church, and immediately afterwards to declare...their independence of their colleagues, and their impatience of the methods whereby they were working.
    PPh 4.79 4 ...when we praise the style, or the common sense, or arithmetic [of Plato], we speak as boys, and much of our impatient criticism of the dialectic, I suspect, is no better. The criticism is like our impatience of miles, when we are in a hurry;...
    MoS 4.166 3 Here is [in Montaigne] an impatience and fastidiousness at color or pretence of any kind.
    NMW 4.243 14 ...[Napoleon] undoubtedly felt...an impatience of fools and underlings.
    NMW 4.243 26 [Napoleon's] impatience at levity was...an oblique tribute of respect to those able persons who commanded his regard...
    NMW 4.252 4 In intervals of leisure...Napoleon appears as a man of genius directing on abstract questions...the impatience of words he was wont to show in war.
    GoW 4.274 12 [Goethe] had an extreme impatience of conjecture and of rhetoric.
    GoW 4.289 17 I join Napoleon with [Goethe], as being both representatives of the impatience and reaction of nature against the morgue of conventions...
    ET3 5.37 5 ...to resist the tyranny and prepossession of the British element, a serious man must aid himself by comparing with it the civilizations of the farthest east and west, the old Greek, the Oriental, much more, the ideal standard; if only by means of the very impatience which English forms are sure to awaken in independent minds.
    ET6 5.104 12 The Englishman is very petulant and precise about his accommodation at inns and on the roads;...and loud and pungent in his expressions of impatience at any neglect.
    ET14 5.250 6 ...where impatience of the tricks of men makes Nemesis amiable...the inevitable recoil is to heroism...
    PI 8.68 5 ...our overpraise and idealization of famous masters is not in its origin a poor Boswellism, but an impatience of mediocrity.
    QO 8.177 8 If we go into a library or newsroom, we see the same function [of suction] of a higher plane, performed...with equal impatience of interruption...
    Dem1 10.27 7 ...far be from me the impatience which cannot brook the supernatural...
    Edc1 10.140 27 [The boy's] hunting and campings-out have given him an indispensable base: I wish to add a taste for good company through his impatience of bad.
    Edc1 10.156 3 Can you not baffle the impatience and passion of the child by your tranquillity?
    LLNE 10.361 10 ...impulse was the rule in the society [at Brook Farm], without centripetal balance; perhaps it would not be severe to say...an impatience of the formal, routinary character of our educational, religious, social and economical life in Massachusetts.
    MMEm 10.406 15 ...if [Mary Moody Emerson's] companion was dull, her impatience knew no bounds.
    MMEm 10.407 26 ...[Mary Moody Emerson] was offended here by the phlegm of all her fellow creatures, and disgusted them by her impatience.
    Carl 10.489 22 [Carlyle] has...the strong religious tinge you sometimes find in burly people. That, and all his qualities, have a certain virulence, coupled though it be in his case with the utmost impatience of Christendom and Jewdom...
    FRep 11.529 17 The men, the women, all over this land shrill their exclamations of impatience and indignation at what is short-coming or is unbecoming in the government...
    FRep 11.534 16 In the planters of this country...the conditions of the country, combined with the impatience of arbitrary power which they brought from England, forced them to a wonderful personal independence...
    MLit 12.318 6 [The educated and susceptible] betray this impatience [with the poverty of our dogmas of religion and philosophy] by fleeing for resource to a conversation with Nature...
    Trag 12.412 24 There is a fire in some men which demands an outlet in some rude action; they betray their impatience of quiet by an irregular Catilinarian gait;...

impatient, adj. (34)

    Art1 2.363 16 ...[art] is impatient of working with lame or tied hands...
    Art1 2.365 4 ...the statue will look cold and false before that new activity which...is impatient of counterfeits...
    Exp 3.63 14 ...we are impatient of so public a life and planet...
    Pol1 3.217 20 It is because we know how much is due from us that we are impatient to show some petty talent as a substitute for worth.
    NR 3.240 15 Here is a new enterprise of Brook Farm...why so impatient to baptize them Essenes...or by any known and effete name?
    NER 3.284 11 Do not be so impatient to set the town right concerning the unfounded pretensions and the false reputation of certain men of standing.
    UGM 4.19 7 The soul is impatient of masters and eager for change.
    PPh 4.79 2 ...when we praise the style, or the common sense, or arithmetic [of Plato], we speak as boys, and much of our impatient criticism of the dialectic, I suspect, is no better.
    SwM 4.94 8 The human mind stands ever in perplexity, demanding intellect, demanding sanctity, impatient equally of each without the other.
    SwM 4.135 17 The excess of [Hebraic] influence shows itself [in Swedenborg] in the incongruous importation of a foreign rhetoric. What have I to do, asks the impatient reader, with jasper and sardonyx...
    ET1 5.6 10 [Greenough] was...impatient of Gothic art.
    ET5 5.80 6 [The English] are impatient of genius...
    ET5 5.88 21 Tacitus says of the Germans, Powerful only in sudden efforts, they are impatient of toil and labor.
    ET11 5.197 25 Whilst the privileges of nobility are passing to the middle class [in England]...the titles of lordship are getting musty and cumbersome. I wonder that sensible men have not been already impatient of them.
    ET12 5.206 8 ...these young men [at Oxford] thus happily placed, and paid to read, are impatient of their few checks...
    Wsp 6.241 3 There are two things, said Mahomet, which I abhor, the learned in his infidelities, and the fool in his devotions. Our times are impatient of both...
    Boks 7.190 18 A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil countries in a thousand years have [in the smallest chosen library] set in best order the results of their learning and wisdom. The men themselves were...impatient of interruption...
    Clbs 7.229 7 In youth...the day is too short for books and the crowd of thoughts, and we are impatient of interruption.
    Res 8.140 2 See...how...every impatient boss who sharply shortens the phrase or the word to give his order quicker...improves the national tongue.
    PPo 8.265 17 You as three birds are amazed,/ Impatient, heartless, confused:/ Far over you am I raised,/ Since I am in act Simorg./
    Insp 8.287 11 Are you poetical, impatient of trade...
    Chr2 10.109 10 ...[mankind at large] are impatient of thought...
    Supl 10.166 23 How impatient we are...of looseness and intemperance in speech!
    Plu 10.309 15 ...[Plutarch] is impatient of sophistry...
    LLNE 10.361 4 Those who inspired and organized [Brook Farm] were... persons impatient of the routine...of society around them...
    Thor 10.456 8 It seemed as if [Thoreau's] first instinct on hearing a proposition was to controvert it, so impatient was he of the limitations of our daily thought.
    HDC 11.29 15 ...in the eternity of Nature, how recent our antiquities appear! The imagination is impatient of a cycle so short.
    ACiv 11.306 16 There does exist, perhaps, a popular will...that our trade, and therefore our laws, must have the whole breadth of the continent, and from Canada to the Gulf. But since this is the rooted belief and will of the people, so much the more are they in danger, when impatient of defeats, or impatient of taxes, to go with a rush for some peace;...
    PLT 12.7 15 Bring the best wits together, and they are so impatient of each other...that you shall have no academy.
    PLT 12.41 19 [A perception] is impatient to put on its sandals and be gone on its errand...
    CInt 12.124 25 ...genius...must be a little impatient and rebellious to this rule [of classification in college]...
    MAng1 12.233 4 A little before he died, [Michelangelo] burned a great number of designs, sketches and cartoons made by him, being impatient of their defects.
    Let 12.397 5 ...we are impatient of the tedious introductions of Destiny...
    Trag 12.405 11 In the dark hours, our existence seems to be...a struggle against the encroaching All, which threatens surely to engulf us soon, and is impatient of our short reprieve.

impatiently, adv. (6)

    Mrs1 3.146 11 ...there is still...some youth ashamed of the favors of fortune and impatiently casting them on other shoulders.
    Wsp 6.229 4 If we will sit quietly, what [people] ought to say is said, with their will or against their will. We do not care for you, let us pretend what we may,--we are always looking through you to the dim dictator behind you. Whilst your habit or whim chatters, we civilly and impatiently wait until that wise superior shall speak again.
    Elo1 7.62 2 The plight of these phlegmatic brains is better than that of those...who impatiently break silence before their time.
    Clbs 7.236 15 ...having a large heart, mother-wit and good sense which impatiently overleaped his customary bounds, [Dr. Johnson's] conversation...has a lasting charm.
    Insp 8.285 28 At last it has become summer,/ And at the first glimpse of morning/ The busy early fly stings me/ Out of my sweet slumber./ Unmerciful she returns again:/ When often the half-awake victim/ Impatiently drives her off,/ She calls hither the unscrupulous sisters,/ And from my eyelids/ Sweet sleep must depart./
    Thor 10.459 18 [Thoreau] listened impatiently to news or bonmots gleaned from London circles;...

impawn, v. (1)

    War 11.169 24 A wise man will never impawn his future being and action...

impeachment, n. (1)

    Elo1 7.73 12 ...Warren Hastings said of Burke's speech on his impeachment, As I listened to the orator, I felt for more than half an hour as if I were the most culpable being on earth.

impede, v. (3)

    YA 1.379 20 ...the office of statute law should be to express and not to impede the mind of mankind.
    Elo1 7.88 4 The judge [in the court-room trial] had a task beyond his preparation, yet his position remained real: he was there to represent a great reality,--the justice of states...which his trifling talk...did not impede...
    Edc1 10.141 19 ...because of the disturbing effect of passion and sense, which by a multitude of trifles impede the mind's eye from the quiet search of that fine horizon-line which truth keeps,-the way to knowledge and power has ever been an escape from too much engagement with affairs and possessions;...

impeded, v. (1)

    FRep 11.532 3 That repose which is the ornament and ripeness of man is not American. That repose which indicates a faith in the laws of the universe,-a faith that they...are not to be impeded, transgressed or accelerated.

impediment, n. (14)

    MR 1.249 4 The power which is at once spring and regulator in all efforts of reform is the conviction...that all particular reforms are the removing of some impediment.
    Prd1 2.226 1 ...climate is a great impediment to idle persons;...
    Pt1 3.6 14 The poet is...the man without impediment...
    Gts 3.159 10 ...the impediment [in giving gifts] lies in the choosing.
    NMW 4.234 3 Horrible anecdotes may no doubt be collected from [Napoleon's] history, of the price at which he bought his successes; but he must not therefore be set down as cruel, but only as one who knew no impediment to his will;...
    ET2 5.31 21 The worst impediment I have found at sea is the want of light in the cabin.
    ET14 5.255 22 ...we have [in England] the factitious instead of the natural;...and the rewarding as an illustrious inventor whosoever will contrive one impediment more to interpose between the man and his objects.
    Ctr 6.134 22 He only is a well-made man who has a good determination. And the end of culture is...to train away all impediment and mixture...
    Elo1 7.79 4 A supreme commander over all his passions and affections; but the secret of [Caesar's] ruling is higher than that. It is the power of Nature running without impediment from the brain and will into the hands.
    PI 8.60 24 Presently [Sir Gawaine] heard the voice of one groaning on his right hand; looking that way, he could see nothing save a kind of smoke... through which he could not pass; and this impediment made him so wrathful that it deprived him of speech.
    Chr2 10.100 16 It happens now and then, in the ages, that a soul is born... which offers no impediment to the Divine Spirit...
    LS 11.19 10 Most men find the bread and wine [of the Lord's Supper] no aid to devotion, and to some it is a painful impediment.
    EdAd 11.393 9 ...a few friends of good letters have thought fit to associate themselves for the conduct of a new journal. We have obeyed the custom and convenience of the time in adopting this form of a Review, as a mould into which all metal most easily runs. But the form shall not be suffered to be an impediment.
    Wom 11.424 4 Let the laws be purged of every barbarous remainder, every barbarous impediment to women.

impediments, n. (10)

    MR 1.230 16 It cannot be wondered at that this general inquest into abuses should arise in the bosom of society, when one considers the practical impediments that stand in the way of virtuous young men.
    Mrs1 3.127 5 Manners aim...to get rid of impediments...
    NMW 4.248 7 The world treated [Napoleon's] novelties just as it treats everybody's novelties...mustered all the impediments;...
    ET1 5.5 5 I have...found writers superior to their books, and I cling to my first belief that a strong head will dispose fast enough of these impediments...
    ET10 5.170 25 A civility of trifles...takes place [in England], and the putting as many impediments as we can between the man and his objects.
    Ctr 6.166 8 [Man] is to convert all impediments into instruments...
    Insp 8.297 4 ...great hospitalities, would have been impediments to [scholars].
    Chr2 10.113 24 Some poor soul beheld the Law blazing through such impediments as he had, and yielded himself to humility and joy. What was gained by being told that it was justification by faith?
    Thor 10.454 27 A fine house, dress, the manners and talk of highly cultivated people were all thrown away on [Thoreau]. He...considered these refinements as impediments to conversation...
    PLT 12.15 5 First I wish to speak of the excellence of that element [Intellect], and the great auguries that come from it, notwithstanding the impediments which our sensual civilization puts in the way.

impelled, v. (4)

    SL 2.139 22 Place yourself in the middle of the stream of power and wisdom...and you are without effort impelled to truth...
    GoW 4.264 14 ...nature has more splendid endowments for those whom she elects to a superior office; for the class of scholars or writers...who are impelled to exhibit the facts in order...
    PC 8.209 12 A silent revolution has impelled...all this activity [in America].
    Bost 12.186 3 What Vasari said...of the republican city of Florence might be said of Boston; that the desire for glory and honor is powerfully generated by the air of that place, in the men of every profession; whereby all who possess talent are impelled to struggle that they may not remain in the same grade with those whom they perceive to be only men like themselves...

impelling, v. (1)

    Pt1 3.20 26 ...[the poet]...perceives...that within the form of every creature is a force impelling it to ascend into a higher form;...

impels, v. (1)

    Chr2 10.103 12 ...the acts which [the moral sentiment] suggests-as when it impels a man to go forth and impart it to other men...are the homage we render to this sentiment...

impend, v. (1)

    LT 1.285 22 The revolutions that impend over society are not now from ambition and rapacity...

impending, adj. (1)

    LS 11.7 3 Jesus is a Jew, sitting with his countrymen, celebrating their national feast [the Passover]. He thinks of his own impending death...

impenetrability, n. (1)

    Ill 6.318 10 Is not our faith in the impenetrability of matter more sedative than narcotics?

impenetrable, adj. (3)

    ShP 4.203 26 Our poet's [Shakespeare's] mask was impenetrable.
    PerF 10.72 17 ...in the impenetrable mystery which hides...the mental nature, I await the insight which our advancing knowledge of material laws shall furnish.
    PLT 12.5 16 ...in the impenetrable mystery which hides...the mental nature, I await the insight which our advancing knowledge of material laws shall furnish.

impera, v. (1)

    Wth 6.120 22 Help comes in the custom of the country, and the rule of Impera parendo.

imperat, v. (1)

    II 12.77 19 The old law of science, Imperat parendo, we command by obeying, is forever true;...

imperative, adj. (11)

    Tran 1.340 5 ...Immanuel Kant...replied to the skeptical philosophy of Locke...by showing that there was a very important class of ideas or imperative forms, which did not come by experience, but through which experience was acquired;...
    SS 7.11 11 As soon as the first wants are satisfied, the higher wants become imperative.
    Elo1 7.83 7 The emergency which has convened the meeting is usually of more importance than anything the debaters have in their minds, and therefore becomes imperative to them.
    Prch 10.233 7 ...as much justice as we can see and practise is useful to men, and imperative, whether we can see it to be useful or not.
    Thor 10.459 6 Mr. Thoreau explained to the President [of Harvard University]...that, at this moment, not only his want of books was imperative, but he wanted a large number of books...
    EWI 11.132 10 Let the senators and representatives of the State [of Massachusetts]...go in a body before the Congress and say that they have a demand to make on them, so imperative that all functions of government must stop until it is satisfied.
    EWI 11.135 7 There are other comparisons and other imperative duties which come sadly to mind...
    ACiv 11.298 1 There is no interest in any country so imperative as that of labor;...
    EPro 11.322 25 [Lincoln] might look wistfully for what variety of courses lay open to him; every line but one was closed up with fire. This one [Emancipation], too, bristled with danger, but through it was the sole safety. The measure he has adopted was imperative.
    Wom 11.422 20 Every one is a half vote, but the next elector behind him brings the other or corresponding half in his hand: a reasonable result is had. Now there is no lack, I am sure...of the interests of trade or of imperative class interests being neglected.
    PLT 12.37 5 In its lower function, when it deals with the apparent world, [Instinct] is common sense. It requires the performance of all that is needful to the animal life and health. Then it...requires...that symmetry and connection which is imperative in all healthily constituted men...

imperative, n. (1)

    Gts 3.160 16 For common gifts, necessity makes pertinences and beauty every day, and one is glad when an imperative leaves him no option;...

imperatively, adv. (1)

    Mrs1 3.138 19 We imperatively require a perception of, and a homage to beauty in our companions.

imperceptible, adj. (1)

    MR 1.254 16 Love...will accomplish that by imperceptible methods...which force could never achieve.

imperceptibly, adv. (2)

    Cir 2.304 2 The life of man is a self-evolving circle, which, from a ring imperceptibly small, rushes on all sides outwards to new and larger circles...
    ET4 5.44 13 ...each variety [of race] shades down imperceptibly into the next...

imperfect, adj. (25)

    Nat 1.70 3 ...we learn to prefer imperfect theories...to digested systems which have no one valuable suggestion.
    DSA 1.120 14 Behold these out-running laws, which our imperfect apprehension can see tend this way and that...
    Tran 1.338 27 Shall we say then that Transcendentalism is...the presentiment of a faith proper to man in his integrity, excessive only when his imperfect obedience hinders the satisfaction of his wish?
    SL 2.150 15 Persons...dedicate their whole skill to the hour and the company,--with very imperfect result.
    Prd1 2.228 10 It is vinegar to the eyes to deal with men of loose and imperfect perception.
    OS 2.296 19 [The soul saith] I, the imperfect, adore my own Perfect.
    Int 2.342 11 He [in whom the love of truth predominates] submits to the inconvenience of suspense and imperfect opinion...
    Art1 2.351 23 In a portrait [the painter]...must esteem the man who sits to him as himself only an imperfect picture or likeness of the aspiring original within.
    Art1 2.363 14 [The arts] are abortive births of an imperfect or vitiated instinct.
    Pt1 3.8 14 ...we hear those primal warblings and attempt to write them down, but we lose ever and anon a word or a verse and substitute something of our own and thus miswrite the poem. The men of more delicate ear write down these cadences more faithfully, and these transcripts, though imperfect, become the songs of the nations.
    Nat2 3.181 22 ...the trees are imperfect men...
    NR 3.233 24 ...it was easy [at Handel's Messiah] to observe what efforts nature was making, through so many hoarse, wooden and imperfect persons, to produce beautiful voices...
    F 6.35 26 The second and imperfect races are dying out...
    Bhr 6.177 22 Man cannot fix his eye on the sun, and so far seems imperfect.
    DL 7.114 15 Give us wealth, and the home shall exist. But that is a very imperfect and inglorious solution of the problem, and therefore no solution.
    PI 8.39 6 [The poet's] inspiration is power to carry out and complete the metamorphosis, which, in the imperfect kinds arrested for ages, in the perfecter proceeds rapidly in the same individual.
    Comc 8.173 20 All our plans, managements, houses, poems...are equally imperfect and ridiculous.
    PC 8.227 12 The dreams of the night supplement by their divination the imperfect experiments of the day.
    Insp 8.270 26 In the best races [thought] is rare and imperfect.
    Plu 10.321 4 ...I yet confess my enjoyment of this old version [of Plutarch's Morals], for its vigorous English style. The work of some forty or fifty University men, some of them imperfect in their Greek, it is a monument of the English language...
    HDC 11.83 5 Such, fellow citizens, is an imperfect sketch of the history of Concord.
    EPro 11.316 1 Such moments of expansion [of liberty] in modern history were the Confession of Augsburg...the Magnetic Ocean Telegraph, though yet imperfect...
    Let 12.401 1 On earth all is imperfect! is an old proverb of the German.
    Let 12.401 4 On earth all is imperfect! is an old proverb of the German. Aye, but if one should say to these God-forsaken, that with them all is imperfect only because they leave nothing pure, which they do not pollute...
    Trag 12.409 17 ...it is...imperfect characters from which somewhat is hidden that all others see, who suffer most from these causes.

imperfection, n. (5)

    NR 3.241 7 ...when we have insisted on the imperfection of individuals, our affections and our experience urge that every individual is entitled to honor...
    ShP 4.216 22 ...[solitude] weighs Shakspeare also, and finds him to share the halfness and imperfection of humanity.
    SS 7.7 1 We have known many fine geniuses with that imperfection that they cannot do anything useful...
    Comc 8.159 12 ...the human form...suggests to our imagination the perfection of truth or goodness, and exposes by contrast any halfness or imperfection.
    Dem1 10.5 6 A painful imperfection almost always attends [dreams].

imperfections, n. (2)

    OS 2.286 10 ...maugre our efforts or our imperfections, your genius will speak from you, and mine from me.
    Cir 2.307 9 ...if I have a friend I am tormented by my imperfections.

imperfectly, adv. (4)

    NR 3.226 9 Each of the speakers [in a debate] expresses himself imperfectly;...
    PI 8.74 6 Poetry is inestimable as...a lonely protest in the uproar of atheism. But so many men are ill-born or ill-bred,--the brains are...so imperfectly formed...that the doctrine is imperfectly received.
    PI 8.74 8 Poetry is inestimable as...a lonely protest in the uproar of atheism. But so many men are ill-born or ill-bred...that the doctrine is imperfectly received.
    Milt1 12.276 12 Like prophets, [Homer and Shakespeare] seem but imperfectly aware of the import of their own utterances.

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